The malware was being circulated by a cybercriminal group over Telegram under the guise of legitimate applications such as ChatGPT, the Opera Mini browser, premium versions of YouTube, and other popular apps and websites.
I don’t know what happened to Poweramp on your side, but I’ve scanned my copy and nothing gets detected.
Assuming you’re not stupid, the only time you will notice Play Protect is through false positives. You can disable it if you’re smart enough not to install APKs from Telegram, but it’s still a valuable security tool for the general public.
Play Protect won’t take action on that, though. Installed apps will only get purged when Google actually detects a virus.
I’m surprised the Poweramp dev still hasn’t updated their storage API calls, picking one or more directories to play content from has been the norm for two or three years now. I guess it’s a backwards compatibility thing for existing customers?
I think Play Protect does sometimes throw a “installing whatsappro2022crackedbysteve.APK can be dangerous” prompt, but you can just click through that.
The only thing play protect has done “for” me lately was remove file access to Poweramp the day after I got it. Fuck Play Protect.
“it really skips the llama’s ass”
I don’t know what happened to Poweramp on your side, but I’ve scanned my copy and nothing gets detected.
Assuming you’re not stupid, the only time you will notice Play Protect is through false positives. You can disable it if you’re smart enough not to install APKs from Telegram, but it’s still a valuable security tool for the general public.
Perhaps, he had that when Poweramp still had that permission. The app itself says Google removed that permission for play edition apps.
Play Protect won’t take action on that, though. Installed apps will only get purged when Google actually detects a virus.
I’m surprised the Poweramp dev still hasn’t updated their storage API calls, picking one or more directories to play content from has been the norm for two or three years now. I guess it’s a backwards compatibility thing for existing customers?
I think Play Protect does sometimes throw a “installing whatsappro2022crackedbysteve.APK can be dangerous” prompt, but you can just click through that.