A nasty android virus.You won't even delete it by making "factory reset"

There is nothing, nowadays, cyber security is an extremely important issue.The more that smartphones have become tools for us, thanks to which we manage, for example.as sensitive matters as finances.The universality of these devices and their enormous popularity causes that cyber threads appear all the time.One of the louder recently is Xhelper.

What distinguishes Xhelper from other threats to Android is the fact that it is very difficult to get rid of it.Restoration of the phone to factory settings will not help - this one will continue to reside in the device's memory and, after re -configuring the equipment, will restart his "payload" again.As indicated by the BGR website, Xhelper is one of the more resistant cell viruses that we have to know so far.

Although Google actively cooperates with companies dealing with cybersecurity, in order to eliminate dangerous programs from the Google Play store, malicious applications are constantly appearing in the repository, whose download will cause a dangerous infection.Of course, all the time is much more risky to use unofficial application tanks for Android - there cybercriminals intentionally leave installers containing only malicious code.

Xhelper is able to steal user data, install further dangerous programs, and display ads.The load on the infected smartphone caused by sponsored materials can be so large that the equipment will cease to respond to the user commands - becoming essentially unusable.This is probably not a script that we would like to watch on our smartphone.In the case of Xhelper and similar threats, Malwarebytes spoke, which provides solutions for mobile platforms that allow to maintain an adequate level of security.The company primarily calms down: Google Play's store does not seem to be responsible for spreading Xhelper, but you should be on your guard.It has already turned out to be many times that the official Android repository is a carrier of dangerous programs.

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45,000 infected mobile devices.Xhelper, however, did not say the last word

What is very important, Xhelper has been operating on the Internet since May last year, but only now he was noticed by experts.Until then, he managed to infect about 45,000 phones and tablets - this number is growing all the time.First of all, these are users from Russia and the United States.Malwarebytes has published a short guide that allows you to effectively remove Xhelper from the device- it is important for him to temporarily exclude Google Play services.Perhaps, one of the operations taking place during the re -configuration of the phone or tablet is a kind of "trigger" to reactivate Xhelper.

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So let's invest in additional smartphone or tablet protection;It should also be borne in mind that cyber threads can lurk anywhere.So it is not worth downloading programs from unknown sources, and also watch out for applications from Google Play: Reading the program reviews before downloading it can protect us from a nasty infection.

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Source of text: Malwarebytes

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