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HELP I used psa.wf which is reccomended on lemmy piracy sub and i think i have got an unnistallable virus that doesn't show up in settings should i wipe down ? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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EDIT: Now it has started ahowing up on system app list . Am i fucked ? Now i have to wipe down right ?

Today when i opened the tab of psa my firewall (rethink) pinged as i have set it to automatically block internet acess of newly installed apps and ask me to decide if i should allow them internet access. The thing is i can't find them on my phones applist even if i enable system apps to delete it . Rethink shows it in installed catalog and i am pretty sure this is an installed app as i have gone through my system apps several times and just look at it it only tries to connect to that site and is made to pass as a system app . What should i do ? Should i wipe down my phone ? Also /c/ piracy should stop reccomending that shithole site honestly.

PS : Sorry if i'm on the wrong community you can point me in the right direction.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Honestly IMO if you have even an inkling that you've been got by a virus, nuking from orbit is the only solution.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

What does piracy have to do with privacy? Perhaps put your query and demand on their board?

[+] [email protected] -17 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wtf are you talking about ? I am asking what should i do and if this is a virus what does piracy have anyrhing to do with it ?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

you were talking about [email protected] and how you were downloading stuff from a site they endorsed, and now you think you got infected by something. So I was asking what does that have to do with privacy?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

last time i got a virus i made sure i had documents backed up and then formatted the hard drive. that was over a decade ago though so i don't know how people deal now

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Haven't had it happen to me, but a guy i know dealt with it but saying "no don't touch it, it doesn't bother me"

His screen got covered in porn whenever he turned out on, hot singles in his area...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Dude. That app is your OS.

https://f-droid.org/packages/io.github.muntashirakon.AppManager/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I'd just wipe everything; also change the passwords to the accounts used during suspected infection, mb try to ask the cellular provider the SMS history in case it reset any passwords. Y'know, the usual stuff.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Hypatia (A real-time malware scanner) https://f-droid.org/packages/us.spotco.malwarescanner/