awful.systems
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
Lee Duna to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years ago

Avast confirms it tagged Google app as malware on Android phones

www.bleepingcomputer.com

external-link
message-square
9
fedilink
149
external-link

Avast confirms it tagged Google app as malware on Android phones

www.bleepingcomputer.com

Lee Duna to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years ago
message-square
9
fedilink
alert-triangle
You must log in or register to comment.
  • @Crogdor@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    82•2 years ago

    tl;dr: It’s a false positive. The headline makes it sound like an intentional classification, but that’s not the case. Also, they fixed the problem two days ago.

    • @dontcarebear@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      52•
      edit-2
      2 years ago

      deleted by creator

      • @AceSLS@lemmy.sdf.org
        link
        fedilink
        English
        9•2 years ago

        It’s google, it’s okay when they do it /s

      • @Lord_ToRA@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        6•2 years ago

        Google bad

        • @MonkderZweite@feddit.ch
          link
          fedilink
          English
          1•2 years ago

          Nee, Google Services. Eeh, Play Services.

  • @jacktherippah@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    7•2 years ago

    Avast itself is malware to me.

  • Padjakkels
    link
    fedilink
    English
    5•2 years ago

    Click bait much?

  • ChaoticNeutralCzech
    link
    fedilink
    English
    4•
    edit-2
    2 years ago

    If you think Avast is based, think again. They are some of the most annoying AV software (excluding the pure scams of course).

    Rejected Bugemos Comic
    “When I finish writing this, I will put the markers in the box.”
    “A meeting is in progress.”
    “I’m sweetening my coffee.”
    “My back itches.”
    “Somebody is standing behind me.”
    “This phone is ringing.”

    Internal tests by Balast Inc. did not confirm users’ complaints about too many notifications.

    • @RazorsLedge@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      2•2 years ago

      Think avast is based on what?

      • @dukk@programming.dev
        link
        fedilink
        English
        2•2 years ago

        based

  • @RazorsLedge@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    1•2 years ago

    deleted by creator

Technology@lemmy.world

!technology@lemmy.world

remote_follow_modal_title

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !technology@lemmy.world

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


  • @L4s@lemmy.world
  • @autotldr@lemmings.world
  • @PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks
  • @wikibot@lemmy.world
  • 5.95K users / day
  • 9.2K users / week
  • 16.4K users / month
  • 35K users / 6 months
  • 70K subscribers
  • 13.8K Posts
  • 550K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • @L3s@lemmy.world
  • enu
  • Technopagan
  • L4sBot
  • L3s
  • @L4s@hackingne.ws
  • BE: 0.19.3
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org