Comments on: Holy crap did I get the most annoying trojan attempt ever!

By: neozeed

neozeed — Wed, 04 Jan 2017 01:31:03 +0000

In reply to Ray Herring. It's just a pop up screen. I just closed the tab.

By: Ray Herring

Ray Herring — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 15:27:58 +0000

So how did you get rid of this thing?

By: neozeed

neozeed — Sun, 11 Dec 2016 17:39:11 +0000

In reply to Peter. Yes. I know, but do they even look at things that get flagged? Sounds otherwise like a great money making scheme.

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 11 Dec 2016 13:35:24 +0000

Remember, inside Google’s playstore there are more than two apps, instead, about 2,2 Mio apps. Naturally this is far too much to analyze all apps in depth.
So Google is dependent on user feedback. Unless there are so many idiotic, useless but positive feedbacks for this app, Google will not do anything useful I guess.
The morality of this story: Users will have always switch on their brain before using smartphones. I would prefer that Google will implement a much better check of each app, but again, think of the number of the apps in playstore.

My tip for every android user: Use Firefox for Android, but also with Noscript to have a control about each executed script.

By: neozeed

neozeed — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 02:25:14 +0000

In reply to Erin.

It’s a bigger shame that tiny companies like Google can’t curate their walled gardens.

Such is the Wild West I suppose

By: Erin

Erin — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 00:37:23 +0000

Such is the state of Android security these days. It’s *way* too easy for half baked social engineered exploits like this to take foot.