Sunday, July 17, 2016

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 Note from a friend on Facebook
Make sure your kids know not to install apps from untrusted sources... and also, I should inform you that recently there have been some really nasty malware that have slipped past google and made it onto the google store over the past few days (relating to pokemon go). One of them pretends to be a tutorial program, while another pretended to be the real app.

Lockscreen viruses that hijack the phone and make it run stuff in the background. Removing the battery helps remove the lock, but doesn't remove the virus.

According to experts, its only a matter of time before ransomware makes its way onto the google store.

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