Uninstall these two Android apps now!



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Google has removed two Android apps that have been installed together more than 1.5 million times. Applications earned money for their creators by launching ads that sounded at the checkout for bad actors whenever someone clicked on an advertisement. You could tell yourself, well, what's the problem? Why blame a guy over there because he's making dough. But the truth is that these ad serving apps can use some of your phone's resources and help discharge the battery.

The activities of these two applications have been discovered by the mobile security company Wandera (via ZDNet). Sun Pro Beauty Camera has recorded more than a million installations, while Funny Sweet Beauty Selfie Camera has recorded 500,000 downloads. If you have installed one of these two apps on your Android device, you need to uninstall them now. As usual with these malicious applications, once you have installed one, the app icon disappears from the application drawer when a shortcut is created. And even if you delete the shortcut, the app continues to run ads in the background.

Once installed, the Sun Pro Beauty Camera tries to close the ads in full screen even if the application is not open. Funny Sweet Beauty Selfie Camera also broadcasts ads in full screen, but only after uploading a filtered photo using the app. And as usual, the comments left on the lists of the two apps in the Google Play Store have alerted Android users. One comment says, "Garbage, please, do not download this app. These are just commercials, that's all, nothing else." Another note that "… ads continue to appear," and a third said, "I did not find anything useful and ads, do not get me started, they were everywhere." When you see an app with such criticism, your first action should be to get away from it as much as possible.

Wandera reported the apps to Google on September 11 and, as we've indicated, have since been removed from the Google Play Store.

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