Agent Smith Virus affects 2.5 Crore Phones Worldwide, Know How to Remove it from Your Phone
2.5 Crore Smartphones are affected by this Virus
2.5 Crore Smartphones in India are in the clutch of this virus
Hindi Speakers targeted
Apart from India Pakistan, Britain and Bangladesh also got affected.
The Android Smartphones are always under security concern as every other day viruses and malware are claimed to affected these devices. Just of late security firm Checkwind has claimed that a new virus named Agent Smith has affected 2.5 crore Smartphones worldwide. Out of this only 1.5 crore handsets are affected in India. This virus has reached the handsets of users with the help of Google apps and without their knowledge. This app is extremely dangerous as it can change the existing Android apps on your handset to virus. Apart from India, users in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Britain, Australia and America have also been affected by this malware.
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How the Agent Smith App can affect your Phone
If this malware has already reached your device, then it must have taken complete access of your Smartphone without your permission. After this, the app must be showing you all sorts of ads in your phone related to financial fraud. With the help of these fraud ads, this app might steal your financial information. What’s most problematic with this app is that you can’t see the app icon on your Smartphone. So you can never know if it’s on your handset or not. This app might replace the popular apps such as Whatsapp or Google on your handset.
Takes Help of Third Party App to enter Your Phone
Besides, this app downloads 9Apps like dropper app from the Play Store. In order to forcibly download these apps, it takes help of ads like free game apps, adult and free offers. Apps downloaded from third-party app stores such as 9Apps are encrypted and they already have viruses. After coming to your Smartphone, these apps examines the popular apps such as WhatsApp, MX Player and SHAREit and once it gets an already fixed app on your device, the virus instantly changes the real app with the same name. In such circumstance, the user don’t get a chance to know if he is using a real app or a virus.
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If you have apps such as whatsapp, lenovo.anyshare.gps, mxtech.videoplayer.ad, jio.jioplay.tv, jio.media.jiobeats, jiochat.jiochatapp, jio.join, good.gamecollection, opera.mini.native, startv.hotstar, meitu.beautyplusme, domobile.applock, touchtype.swiftkey, flipkart.android, cn.xender, eterno and truecaller on your handset, then there is chance that the app might have reached your handset by now. This virus has affected the Hindi, Arabian, Russian and Indonesia speaking people most importantly.
How to Remove Agent Smith Virus from Your Phone
Go to Settings on your Smartphone.
Next click on Apps or Application Manager.
Now scroll down and check every single app.
Now in the drop down, if you find some app which seems doubtful or you have not downloaded it, then uninstall it immediately.
If no suspicious app detected, then uninstall all recently installed apps and reinstall.
That’s it. You have finally made you handset safe. Also keep visiting BlogZamana to get further updates.