There are millions of Applications available in the Google playstore. Among these there are few suspicious apps that steal and sell our personal information to third parties. Some apps drain up our battery, some other apps need lot of storage space, while some apps pop up ads and increase the mobile data consumption in the background. Even google cannot check the safety of all these new apps created every single day. So, the security of your device mostly depends on you.
1) Uc Browser
It is one of the most popular web browser containing of 500 million downloads in the Google playstore. It is fast because it compresses your data when you visit websites. Although it is a very popular web browser, it steals and gets access to all your personal information. It has been accused of leaking data to third party. It also sends your device personal information like IMEI number and other android related information to Alibaba Analytics tool. It shows you the spam noifications and also sends your device location to the chinese servers unencrypted. So that your data can be hacked and you could be at risk. Browsers with additional features are very dangerous.
2) Clean Master(cleaning apps)
These cleaning apps clean up your phone and boosts up the phone’s performance. They clean up junk files from your device and speed up your RAM. But in reality, any technical expert do not recommend such apps on your Android device. Clean masters and similar apps require lot of battery and storage space in your phone. These apps allow ads and slow down your phone’s performance. All they actually do is clear the cache temporarily. But your phone can do this on its own.
To free up junk files and RAM from your device you do not need to install such particular apps. To clean up the junk files, you need to remove cache. We can remove cached data by going to Settings>>Storage>>tap on Cached data>>clear cached data>>click ok. To remove cached data of a particular app go to >>Settings>>Apps>>Tap on the app>>clear cache. Now coming to the cleaning up your RAM through clean master . It kills your applications that are running in the background at that particular point of time and your android apps start again when you open it. Android is very smart to manage those applications as they are already built-in and you need not install such third party apps on your device to make it even faster. Remember your phone won’t get more memory than you had initially. Even though it has 500 million downloads, these apps are quite unnecessary on your android device.
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3) ES file Explorer file manager
It has 100 million downloads and manages your files. This was a very good app but now it has become very dangerous. The user interface shows you a lot of ads, it loads lot of AD scripts in the background and slows down your device performance. It also makes you install third party applications from the playstore that can have malware and that can harm your device. It also collects personal information in the background to malicious agents. So, it’s very dangerous and this needs to be uninstalled. Avoid file managers and cleaner apps that shows you lot of ads that can contain malicious agents which can harm your device and even steal your personal information.
4) Antivirus apps
These antivirus apps require lot of permissions and have access to all your personal data and can send this information to third parties. So, it’s better to avoid such apps. I think you need not install such apps on your Android as Google has a protection plan for your device. Google has play protect in the Google play store. Google play protect regularly scans all your device apps and detects if there is any harmful behavior.
5) DU battery saver
As the name suggests, this app optimizes your battery and helps you charge your device faster. In Reality if we think , for the fast charging of your phone you just require a faster charger but not an app something like this. It also speeds up your phone’s memory for a temporary amount of time by just killing the background applications. For the next time those applications start it requires more battery consumption. If you click on optimize button it shows you lot of ads and these ads take a lot of battery and decreases the performance of your phone. It also shows lock screen ads. Thus, this app is useless for your device and wastage of your storage space and battery.
6) Wi-fi apps
These apps promise you to provide with free wi-fi hotspots. These apps get access to all your data and we need to be careful. Some apps like Wi-Fi Master key, smart free Wi-Fi and free Wi-Fi connect share your account information, location information, device information etc. If you read out the privacy policy of these apps you would come to know the information they share.
So, these are list of some suspicious apps in the Google play store. Though these apps are very popular and have millions of downloads it's better to delete these apps from your phone immediately...
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