There is very little chance for malicious code to actually slip by it. It runs both on the files we publish to the store and then once again as you install the app on your device.

Google has a myriad of very strict security and virus scans of its own via the Google Play Protect program.

First and foremost, our app is only officially available through the Google Play Store. There are a few more details surrounding the unfortunate situation we would like to point out as well. We strive for full transparency and encourage anyone out there harboring some doubts to grab and scan the APK for themselves. We are also including a more thorough report from a multi-tool virus scan on an APK file downloaded straight from the Google Play Store, courtesy of. Reports from AVG AntiVirus, Avast Mobile Security and Malware-bytes, all clean Here are screenshots from AVG AntiVirus, Avast Mobile Security and Malware-bytes on a phone running the latest GSMArena 1.6.6 app. Virus and malware detection is not a perfect process and we have already reached out to anti-virus software developers to remedy the situation and the issue has seemingly been resolved. Unfortunately, such things happen from time to time. We can assure you that these warnings are all false-positives. A few users have reported a message from AVG identifying an Evo-gen trojan threat inside the app and a similar thing has also reportedly happened to a user on an Oppo phone, with the warning issues by the phone's built-in protection. It has recently come to our attention that a number of our Android app users have been receiving menacing virus warnings from various antivirus apps.

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