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Avast confirms it tagged Google app as malware on Android phones (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
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[–] Crogdor@lemmy.world 79 points 8 months ago (1 children)

tl;dr: It’s a false positive. The headline makes it sound like an intentional classification, but that’s not the case. Also, they fixed the problem two days ago.