Beware .. 9 destructive apps "devour" your phone battery
Technology experts have warned users of Android-powered smartphones from 9 "harmful" applications whose use would drain the phone's battery.
And applications that have been warned, loaded millions of times on the devices, "Android", and caused the emergence of unwanted ads, as well as their role in damaging batteries.
As complaints spread over the nine applications, they were deleted from the Google Play store, but they still exist on phones that have already been fixed.
Information security researcher Lucas Stefanco was quoted by the Sun newspaper as saying the nine applications were "hiding unwanted codes."
Stefano pointed out that the applications replaced the warning all turn the phone to a remote control "remote control" of the TV or air conditioner, which entices users to download.
But their harmful effects soon appear with frequent ad impressions and rapid depletion of battery power.
The nine applications carry similar names:
- Remote control for TV and home electronics
- Remote for television for free
- Air conditioner remote control
- TV remote controlling
- Remote for air conditioner
- Remote control for the car (prank)
- Universal TV remote controller
- TV remote controller
- Remote control
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