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A new batch of malicious Android apps filled with adware and malware was found on the Google Play Store that has been installed close to 10 million times on mobile devices.

The apps pose as image-editing tools, virtual keyboards, system optimizers, wallpaper changers, and more. However, their underlying functionality is to push intrusive ads, subscribe users to premium services, and steal victims’ social media accounts.

The discovery of these malicious apps comes from the Dr. Web antivirus team, who highlighted the new threats in a report published today.

Google has removed the vast majority of the presented applications, but at the time of writing this, three applications remain available for download and installation via the Play Store.

Also, if you installed any of these apps before their removal from the Play Store, you will still need to uninstall them from your device manually and run an AV scan to clean

Google Play Store is the safest and most secure way to download apps on your Android smartphone. Since mobile applications are based on the APK format, they cannot run in a Windows environment. This is the reason why Google Play Store is not available for your laptop or PC. But there are still a few workarounds to that problem. In this article, we show you how to download and install Google Play Store on your laptop or PC.

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Download apps on your smartphone using Google Play Store on your PC

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While there is no direct way to download the Google Play Store on your PC, you can still download apps on your smartphone using the Play Store on your web browser. Simply open play.google.com on your PC’s web browser and search for the app you wish to

Several adware apps promoted aggressively on Facebook as system cleaners and optimizers for Android devices are counting millions of installations on Google Play store.

The apps lack all of the promised functionality and push advertisements while trying to last as long as possible on the device.

To evade deletion, the apps hide on the victim’s device by constantly changing icons and names, masquerading as Settings or the Play Store itself.

The adware apps abuse the Contact Provider Android component, which enables them to transfer data between the device and online services.

The subsystem is called every time a new app is installed, so the adware might be using it to initiate the ad-serving process. To the user it may look like the ads are pushed by the legitimate app they installed.

Researchers at McAfee discovered the adware apps. They note that users don’t