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Re:Unremovable malware found preinstalled on low-end smartph... by jenkstom on Friday January 10, 2020 @05:08PM (#22016137)
I bought three of these for my 8 year old triplets from twigby.com. I was really upset with twigby, but I guess they weren't the ones that did it. These phones would continuously install weird apps no matter what I did. I even had them locked down with the google family app and they still did their thing. I upgraded to to Moto G7 Plays and they are not only faster, they don't continuously install malware.
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Re:Unremovable malware found preinstalled on low-end smartph... by swiley on Saturday January 11, 2020 @07:13AM (#22019479)
I had a similar experience with a track phone I bought as a cheap balloon tracker: As soon as I put it on WiFi it pulled down maybe a gigabyte of random crap (it looked like mostly games but also “facebook” and some other things like that.) It refused to install termux until it had installed a dozen or so worthless things.
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