Android virus, quickly rising in the ranking of the most dangerous

Mobile viruses are the eternal theme for owners of Android smartphones. When the time will come when we won't have to worry about it? Unknown. In the meantime, look for possible information to protect themselves and their personal data stored on smartphones. Now you will learn about the dangerous virus, which quickly rises in the ranking of the most dangerous. Also note his identity, what he does, and how to be safe from his activities.
What kind of virus?




Quite a lot of viruses have been frozen and removed over the past year. But whether the entire list has been eradicated? You can immediately tell that there is. Following the virus, which in a short space of time has rapidly risen in the ranking of the most dangerous, is called xHelper.
The virus was found by ESET in the spring of last year. However, record-high activity noticed in the beginning of 2020. It is for these few days quite a few devices infected with Trojan.

Interestingly, xHelper is primarily aimed at smartphones. Slightly less likely to become infected with other Android devices (tablets etc.). And according to statistics the most dangerous Android virus, xHelper has risen to 8th place in the overall ranking, in less than a year.

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Its primary purpose is identity theft. But for maximum effectiveness, ACCORDING to its creators added viral advertising and a distributor of other viral applications. He is able to steal card data from Google accounts, saved passwords and other information that just can't get on the Internet.
How to find it




In almost all cases, where your Android smartphone is infected with this virus shows a huge amount of advertising in any menu of your smartphone, and the emergence of new, unknown applications on the smartphone. The virus is quite tricky. It can be installed in smartphones, where it once already was. And it happens quite simple:
It is installed on the smartphone via viral applications, installs himself in the firmware. And even after a factory reset there is a possibility that he will return by itself to your smartphone. During its "life" on your device, it displays annoying ads, installs other phishing and virus application. There were even cases of spam with infected devices.
An interesting fact that over the past few months, the virus several times changed its code. Thus antivirus programs are not so easy to identify xHelper.
How to protect yourself from xHelper




The best defense is not to miss xHelper on your smartphone. It is distributed through the official app store. It is recommended to download only the application with the special option "editor's Choice". This label means that the application passed manual validation and are clearly no viruses.
But if you want the app without this mark, then read the reviews, study the information on this app on the Internet. But if you decided to download something from the network, the better in this period, refuse this idea. Given the high activity xHelper, it can be integrated into many free applications on hundreds of sites.
To determine what this virus on your smartphone is quite difficult. There is some specific criteria that can give it. But this is one of the few viruses that can recover even after a reset. And if after this action you have again showed signs of infection, the only solution will be to reinstall the phone firmware. We strongly recommend you do it yourself, especially if you've never done before.
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