Hello Savvies, I am afraid it's time for another periodic Android security checkup. While no one really enjoys to perform a thorough sweep of every app installed on their mobile phones once every few weeks or so in search for all kinds of different malware, the truth is Google isn't doing a very good job of keeping you out of harm's way.
That's why you should always look over your own (digital) shoulder and pay attention to each and every new report put together by firms like Bitdefender to know exactly what you must uninstall if you care about your money, the privacy of your data, and your Android phone's general well-being and overall performance.
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So what's the problem this time around?
Thankfully, you're not dealing with yet another extensive Joker-spreading campaign or any sort of vicious banking trojan focused primarily on stealing your hard-earned dough. Instead, what we're looking at today is some good old fashioned adware, with its fairly innocuous-sounding target being to inundate your mobile device with commercials.
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