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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago

Avast confirms it tagged Google app as malware on Android phones

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Avast confirms it tagged Google app as malware on Android phones

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Lee Duna@lemmy.nz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years ago
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    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.

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

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