Google Play Store Joker Malware Prevention Tips - Video Transcript
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google play store joker malware
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prevention tips and no this is not a
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joke
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well i i could no i better not i better
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not criticize google i'll get
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immediately banned
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anyways
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and that was being facetious okay i'm
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gonna
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provide some tips on how to prevent
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the
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joker malware and also any kind of
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malware you know what i'm saying but
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quickly let's just go over just a few
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points here and then i will give some
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tips on how you can prevent joker
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malware
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joker
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this is not the first time this type of
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malware has
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infected applications on the google play
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store this time i think it was 50
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total applications that have since been
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removed
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now this is how this
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bioware works
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it will
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st it can steal short message
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which is
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part of an acronym for sms which is just
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text messages
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so this malware can actually
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access
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and then
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take those
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short message
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text messages
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from your google android also
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it can take contact list information
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it can obtain device information
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and also
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what it will do
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it will sign up for premium wireless
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application protocol services i'm
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assuming that your google android would
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have some kind of a virtual payment card
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maybe app well apple pay maybe some kind
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of payment system
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that's already set up and configured on
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your google android and then this
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malware this joker
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spyware malware is it well i don't want
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to digress in to the differences between
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spell
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spyware or malware my point is is that
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it could potentially sign up for
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services that you obviously do not want
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all right they notified the google play
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store and then these 50
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well this is a short list but i think
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there was a total of 50
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applications that were
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on the google play store
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okay now here's the names of some of
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them free affluent message
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portable document format photo scanner
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deluxe keyboard
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complete quick response scanner portable
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document
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format converter scanner font style
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keyboard translate free
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saying message private message read
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scanner print scanner
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so there's a short list what else now
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these are the categories
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that this joker malware
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targeted
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it was 50 plus payloads okay health and
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fitness photography tools
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personalization and communication
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and they give you some percentages of
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the categories
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anything further from now this comes
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directly from z scalar
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which they're a security
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research
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team and they have assisted in the past
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what they do is they try to monitor for
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malware
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i'm not sure if exclusively on the
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google play store maybe not
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and then if they find any malware they
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will
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immediately contact google support and
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then
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to educate them and then a lot of times
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google will remove these applications
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from their store
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it's called zscalar threat labs it's a
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research
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team okay let's scroll down quickly and
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then now i'm going to give you some tips
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some trouble shooting tips now
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you can
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browse to zscaler.com
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and then
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in their blog you can
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look for the joker joking google play
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blog post or you can type in the uniform
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resource locator that i highlighted at
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the top it's a short one you might be
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able to just type that in to your web
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browser
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window okay i think i'm done with the
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blog post you can read on your own
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accord they include some additional
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detailed information
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these are the package names with their
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associated application okay now the tips
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so i'm going to give you some tips on
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how you can
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i'm not guaranteeing anything i don't
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care and t anything really anymore and
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i'm not giving you advice these are just
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some tips that you could use to
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potentially prevent google play store
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joker malware and i would say other
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malware
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but we'll just keep it to this list
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encrypt what you can do is you could
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encrypt your google android device
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google i'm not sure if all versions of
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the the google
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android operating system if all androids
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have this feature but what you can do is
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you can encrypt your device
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i think you go
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into i'm not going to give you exact
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instructions for all these because that
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would be too lengthy but
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if you're interested you can
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perform an internet search for
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google android encryption or encrypt
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google android device
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and so you're gonna encrypt the file
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system
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you know i'm saying that is one way to
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possibly prevent malware
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a second
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tip
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is you can use a virtual private network
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with a malware blocker service now
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if you just use a virtual private
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network
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that's not going to prevent malware
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you want to obtain
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a virtual private network service that
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has an included malware blocker
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and that
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will be another way that you could
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potentially prevent malware
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on your google android device
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and third way
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is to download applications directly
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from official websites
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you could stop using google play store
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yeah i know you cannot criticize google
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you cannot criticize youtube on wii
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sensor youtube i mean they do not like
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that but i'm just telling you this is
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not the first time nor the last time
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that
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applications on the google play store
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have been infected
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and then they spread and that makes
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logical sense i mean think about it
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if you're a perpetrator
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what website or websites could you use
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to spread your
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just deception or to spread malware oh
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that's right
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google play store or the apple
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application store or the amazon store
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application store yes
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so that's so what you could do is if
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you're interested in using an
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application on your dumb device i mean
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your smartphone
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you could try to find the official
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developers website
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and then
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download it from there i mean there is
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no guarantees
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but to me
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go directly to the source
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and you could investigate the company
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you could investigate the application
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you could look for reviews on the
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internet for the application that you're
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interested in installing
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and to see if there is any reports of
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not just bugs
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but
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infection spyware and or malware so that
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is a potential tip
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go directly to the source download
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directly from the official website
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now this is ironic did you know that
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google play store actually has a malware
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scan tool
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what you do is you install the google
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play store application
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onto your google android is it default i
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i don't even let me i haven't used a
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google android in years now and i plan
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on ever actually i don't use
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smartphones so that's an additional tip
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do not use a smartphone
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and then therefore you're not
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downloading any applications
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if you do use a smartphone
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the google play store actually has a
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malware scan tool so you would open the
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google play store and look for the
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the scan tool
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and it'll scan for malware but it may be
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too late but that is potential if it
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does find the malware
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at the very least it will notify you and
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it may even remove it
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now another way is what you can do is
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you can install legitimate malware scan
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tools
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now this is where you're going to have
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to perform some additional research on
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your own you're gonna have to find a
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third-party
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company or and or application
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that
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scans for malware on they may and they
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also may have a real-time scanning but
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however caveat emptor
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the real time scan tools they may slow
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down your malware
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excuse me
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[Laughter]
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they may slow down
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your google android
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because it's a real-time scam it just
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depends on depends on how much memory
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they use how
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central processing unit intensive they
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are it just depends on
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at the very least you could install a
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malware tool and then
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when in doubt you could
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run a malware scan
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now you with that kind of software you
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want to make sure it's updated because
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it's similar to
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viruses these malware tools
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they keep a database
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and when new malware is found they will
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update their database and therefore
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that's why you want to make sure that
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you
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update that software that application on
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your dumb device i mean on your
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smartphone so that is a potential tip to
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not allow your google android to become
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infected so i just gave you one two
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three four
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five quick tips
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now
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oh my god i'm already into overtime way
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way too long okay i need to run now
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quickly quickly here's some additional
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tips from this article
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these are some warning signs these are
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symptoms that your
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android has been infected but i gave you
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some tips to prevent
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the malware from infecting your phone
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i'm gonna give you some additional tips
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if you're suspicious
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your dumb device your smartphone may be
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performing slower than normal
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it's just very slow
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you may be receiving pop-up
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advertisements
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another one is that the battery starts
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to drain quicker than normal
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your phone may start overheating
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it may overheat because of
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the fact that you have malware or
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spyware that's using up a lot of
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resources
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overall
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the phone your smartphone takes longer
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to load like web pages or to load
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applications
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you know what i'm saying
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another
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way to tell potentially that your
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smartphone is infected is an increase in
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data usage which could cause your phone
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bill to increase
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also you what you can do is regularly
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whenever you have time you can go
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through all the applications installed
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and you may see some applications that
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you
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do not remember or you do not think that
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you installed
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you know what i'm saying
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or that you've never used you look
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through the list of applications on your
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dump device on your smartphone and you
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and you're like what is this
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i didn't use it or
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you know what i'm saying
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another
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activity that may
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be caused by malware and joker and any
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malware for that matter
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is that you are no longer able to
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receive any new operating system updates
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so no more google
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updates no more google android updates
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whether you have them
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automatically enabled and they then they
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don't get installed or so you can go
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through your list of smartphone updates
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on your google android
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and see when the last time any of them
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were installed
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what you could do is you could enable
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automatic updates or you could just pick
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you know try to pay attention every time
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you manually install android updates
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just try you know you can go through the
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list and see when the last time they
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were installed and you can also double
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check
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to make sure that those updates are
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being installed so that's that's a big
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tip right there by itself
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is you want to make sure that number one
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your google android
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system updates are
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updated regularly that you check for
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them and you install them number two is
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any applications on your google android
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make sure that you check for updates
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make sure that those application updates
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are installed
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that that alone can
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potentially lower the possibility that
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your google android becomes infected
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google play store joker malware
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prevention tips the joke is on you if
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you continue to use a smartphone i mean
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adios