In today's era, everyone has a smartphone whether it is Android or iOS. No work is possible today without a smartphone. In these smartphones, people have personal information as well as important documents, about which the users are worried that no one can hack their important data. Hackers adopt new ways to hack these data such as virus, malware, ransomware etc. Hackers install these malicious apps by tricking users. Once these apps are installed on the smartphone, then all the personal information of the user reaches the hackers and hackers can misuse these information. So let's see how we can remove these apps from our smartphone.
Malware or malicious software is anything that can damage your device or steal your data. Trojan horses, spyware, worms, viruses, etc. are all classified as malware.
How to know whether the smartphone has malware or not? We can find out by
the behavior of our smartphone. If your smartphone is not working normally then your smartphone may have malware. Here we have listed some ways by which you can know whether your smartphone is infected with malware or not.
If you are getting a lot of ads and pop-ups while using your smartphone it is obvious that your smartphone has infected with malware.
Every time, you will get a new ad. Pop-ups are also designed very cleverly, as the hackers know how to play
with the user’s brain and manipulate him to click on these pop-ups.
Malwares execute the remote code that are designed by hackers.In most of cases, these codes automatically install and download many third-party apps in your smartphone. These apps are spyware which provides your personal information to hackers.
When any malware resides in your smartphone, you won’t be able to see this malware in action and the battery life of your smartphone is decreasing gradually.
Even if you are running an application that requires minimum battery power, yet at
that time malware keeps executing in the background. Hence battery consumption is fast.
You can check the battery settings to understand this. It will display the battery consumed by all the apps since the last time the device was charged
fully.
If it shows a certain app with not so proper name and description consuming maximum battery resource, then it is the malware that is installed on your smartphone.
When the malware is executing in your smartphone, it needs data to perform some of its tasks.
In case it is spyware then it needs the data to send the spied information to the hacker over the internet
When you observe your daily data
is running out, its probably due to the malware residing in your smartphone.
You can monitor it by navigating to the Data Usage Settings. Her you can see certain third-party application consuming most of the data. It is malware.
As malware excute codes to gather information in background, that requires battery power and needs the data to send the spied information to the hacker over the internet.As result your smartphone's temperature will increase.
If smartphone is infected with malware, you run for the solution to fix it.
Let’s see the ways to fix a malware-infected Android Phone.
The best thing to do is to use a reliable antivirus or antimalware program to clean your smartphone. The reason I use the term Trusted is because you will see many antivirus programs offering services for free.
Don't be fooled by these schemes.
Most of the time, this free antivirus software does nothing regarding security, but in turn, it causes more harm to your smartphone.
There are various antivirus or antimalware programs available to choose from. We will see the two best
of them here - Malwarebytes Security and McAfee Security
In most cases, a factory data reset is the best thing you can do to protect your smartphone. You will see this option in the Settings menu of your smartphone.
When you reset your smartphone, it will erase all the data from the smartphone,
including the media on your smartphone along with the malware.
Once the smartphone is reset, you can now take security measures so that no malware can affect your smartphone.
When malware resides on your smartphone, it aims to steal your personal information. This includes important documents, email conversations, call logs and most importantly your login credentials.
So, if you are locked out due to a change in
credentials, you will need to set up a backup mechanism to log back into your account.
If you still have access to your account, you should change your account credentials.
- Always download apps from legitimate sites, these include, Google Play Store and other reputed app stores.
- Monitoring the Application Manager section on a regular basis.
- Using a Trusted Antivirus or Antimalware software.
- Don't click on pop-ups and ads.
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