Having malware on your phone is something frightening; anything that can lead your phone to malfunction and making your data vulnerable to the cyber-criminals can be refer to as malware. Protecting your device against malware is something of high priority because failure to do so can make you regret at later times, but don’t worry there is a solution for this if such happen.
However if your phone is already affected with malware then the matter of protection now go in vain since something you run for now finally reach you but there is a hope even if you found yourself in this situation because you can get rid of any malware on your phone by applying the fixes we are going to provide. It is unfortunate for one to found his phone affected with malware because malware attack can corrupt the whole performance of your device and bring a leak of your data to the eye open sources. It is very complicated to tell if your phone is affected with malware, but we will help you with some tips that if you found your phone having those signs then your device is already affected with malware.
What are the signs of malware?
Below are the signs that can conclude your device is already affected, this is to give you a grips understanding on what to do next.
Fast battery draining
When your device is affected with malware then there are higher chances of reducing your battery performance, because the malware increase the phone processor to work at higher rate by introducing additional unwanted and dangerous services to work in the background which in turns make the phone battery to drain fast.
Low performance
Your device performance will significantly reduce when affected with malware, a user will start to experience much low phone performance like system UI (user interface) not responding, apps hanging, long booting, crashing of system apps and so on. Malware introduces unwanted files to your phone which can occupy your phone storage and memory which in turns stops your system processes and important tasks from working properly.
Pop up ads (Adware)
This is one of the primary signs of malware in your phone because this brings the pop ups of adverts on your phone screen whenever you are connected to the internet. Most of the pop ups are in form of advert that can trick a user to click on a certain type of picture which will redirect a user to some dangerous websites in order to steal his data.
Phone overheating
This happen as a result of too much unwanted background processes from the malware which leads phone CPU to run in high clock speed than normal and this result to overheating of internal hardware components of your phone making it to overheat.
How to uninstall malware
Removing malware from your phone is simple if you follow the steps we are going to provide.
You can remove any malware from your phone by uninstalling the suspected app; this can be done by knowing the exact app, but sometime this can be difficult to know the specific app responsible for your device malfunction instead using Google play protect to determine the malware can be easy to know the harmful apps.
Google play protect is free protection service developed by Google for scanning and detecting any harmful apps on android phone. We are going to use Google play protect in this method.
1. Open your play store app and click on the profile icon which is normally in the top right hand corner of your screen.
2. Select play protect from the option and tap on Scan button to scan your apps. Wait patiently for the scanning to finish.
3. After the scanning finish then it will detect any harmful apps in your phone, by then you can try uninstalling the harmful app.
4. Navigate to your phone apps menu and long press the harmful app for two seconds then tap on uninstall. Alternatively you can navigate to your phone settings and enter app management then select the harmful app then click on uninstall button to uninstall the app.
Factory reset
If trying the above method doesn’t fix your problem then you can try doing factory to your device but make sure you perform data backup so as to avoid data loss. Always use factory reset as your last solution when your phone has any problem. In order to perform factory reset follow the steps below.
1. Turn off your phone by pressing the power button for three seconds and click on power off.
2. After complete shutdown remove your SD card and sim card then press and hold power button + volume down button until your phone logo appear then release them. If doing do didn’t boot you to recovery mode then try googling on how to enter recovery mode based on your device type.
3. When the recovery menu appear then select wipe data / factory reset option by using volume up and down for navigation and power button for selecting.
4. Select yes from the next options for confirmation and patiently wait for the operation to complete.
5. Reboot your phone by selecting reboot system now from the recovery menu.
If applying any of the above solutions fix your malware problem then leave your comment.
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