Android Users! Remove/Uninstall These Apps

Adware apps on Android are nothing new. A new report from Trend Micro identified 85 adware apps that were a bit more complex and advanced than your typical adware.

These apps, most of which were masquerading as photo editing applications or games, employed a bunch of clever methods to display annoying ads to users, while also making it extremely difficult for the user to uninstall them.

Trend Micro’s research into these apps showed that the apps first checked if a specified amount of time had passed since the user first installed them, this was set to a default value of 30 minutes. Once the time had passed, the app would hide its app icon from the app drawer, and create a shortcut on the device’s home screen. This would prevent users from actually uninstalling the app by dragging the icon and uninstalling it. Here’s the list of the apps:

361 Camera
Background Changer
Background Eraser
Beautiful House
Beauty Camera
Blur Camera
Blur Master
Blur Photo Editor
Charm Camera
Checkers box
Cherry Camera
Color House
Connect Smash
Connect Together
Cos Camera
Date Stamp Camera
Draw 1 Line
Easy Camera
Easy Camera Pro
Face Camera
Fancy Camera
Fashion Camera
Fast Blur
Find Differences
HD Video Player
Hi Music PLay
Jelly Crush
Magic Camera
Meet Camera
Mirth Cam
One Line Stroke
One Stroke Drawing
One Stroke Line Puzzle
One Touch Draw
one-line draw puzzle stroke
Owl Camera
Panda Camera
Perfect Camera
Photo Background Eraser
PIC Eraser
Pixel Blur
Pop Camera
QR Code Scanner
Quick Blur
Seals Camera
Selfie Artifact
Selfie Camera
Selfie Dog
Smart File Manager
Stylish Camera
Super Camera
super Selfie
Super Selfiecam
Sweet Camera
Sweet Selfie
Toy Blast
Toy Smash
Toy Story
Video Cut

How to remove the apps

Google has already removed these apps from the Playstore so if you haven’t downloaded any of the apps there’s no reason to be afraid.

But for those who already downloaded the apps, you can uninstall the malicious app. And if that doesn’t help, use adware clean up software–and if all of this doesn’t work, you can do a factory reset. Read this article on how you can remove adware apps.