Czech cybersecurity company Avast confirmed that its antivirus SDK has been flagging a Google Android app as malware on Huawei, Vivo, and Honor smartphones since Saturday.
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.
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.
Sounds like avast’s heuristics are spot on, though. They just needed to exclude a corpo made malware.
It’s google, it’s okay when they do it /s
Google bad
Nee, Google Services. Eeh, Play Services.