{"id":1195797,"date":"2023-10-24T14:19:37","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T18:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1195797"},"modified":"2023-10-24T14:19:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T18:19:37","slug":"google-falsely-flags-samsung-apps-as-harmful-tells-users-to-remove-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1195797","title":{"rendered":"Google falsely flags Samsung apps as \u201charmful,\u201d tells users to remove them"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<ul class=\"gallery shortcode-gallery gallery-wide\">\n<li>\n<div class=\"gallery-item-content\">\n<div class=\"gallery-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/message-238914336-5895615567322623087-980x2102-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p>\n            Google says Samsung Wallet is spying on you! (It isn&#8217;t.)                          [credit:<br \/>\n                              <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/android\/thread\/238882376?hl=en&amp;msgid=238914336\">User 7072490759456883590<\/a><br \/>\n                            ]\n                      <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Most Android users have probably never seen Google Play Protect in action. The malware-scanning service is built into every Android device and is supposed to flag malware that users have installed. Recently it flagged some popular apps that are very much not malware: Samsung Wallet and Samsung Messages.<\/p>\n<p>As spotted by <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2023\/10\/23\/samsung-messages-wallet-harmful-app-google\/\">9to5Google<\/a>, Samsung users have been getting hit with Play Protect warnings since earlier this month. Users on the <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/android\/thread\/238882376?hl=en&amp;msgid=238914336\">Google Support forum<\/a> have posted screenshots of Play Protect flagging the Samsung system apps, and even Samsung <a href=\"https:\/\/r1.community.samsung.com\/t5\/%EC%86%90%EC%89%AC%EC%9A%B4-%ED%95%B4%EA%B2%B0-%EB%B0%A9%EB%B2%95\/%EA%B0%A4%EB%9F%AD%EC%8B%9C-%EC%82%BC%EC%84%B1-%EB%A9%94%EC%8B%9C%EC%A7%80-%EC%95%B1%EC%9D%B4-%EC%9C%A0%ED%95%B4%ED%95%9C-%EC%95%B1%EC%9C%BC%EB%A1%9C-%ED%91%9C%EC%8B%9C%EB%90%A9%EB%8B%88%EB%8B%A4-%EA%B8%B0%EA%B8%B0-%EB%B3%B4%EC%95%88%EC%97%90-%EB%AC%B8%EC%A0%9C%EA%B0%80-%EC%9E%88%EC%9D%8C-%ED%8C%9D%EC%97%85\/ba-p\/23913065\">responded<\/a> to the issue, explaining (in Korean) how to fix any damage caused by the bug. Samsung says (through translation) the issue was caused by &#8220;a temporary failure of the Google server&#8221; and should now be fixed.<\/p>\n<p>Samsung Wallet and Samsung Messages both come bundled with most Samsung phones as system apps, so they have a wide install base. When Play Protect flags an app as harmful, it pops up a message suggesting users remove the app, but since these are both system apps, users can only disable them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1978189#p3\">Read 1 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1978189&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1978189\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Google falsely flags Samsung apps as \u201charmful,\u201d tells users to remove them<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google says Samsung Wallet is spying on you! (It isn&#8217;t.) [credit: User 7072490759456883590 ] Most Android users have probably never seen Google Play Protect in action. 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