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Zeroel043

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I was just playing around with my phone when for some reason I stumbled upon permissions... on the list of apps with permission to my storage, I saw this.... there are about 112 of them and I don't know what these are... captain?
 

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First off, the permissions to access storage aren't granted so whatever these are for, it's not doing anything. The only thing I saw in the play store was an app/game (not sure what it was) my a developer from Germany "Mechanical Light". It was called iSwear. Do you have something like that installed?
 
lunatic59 said:
First off, the permissions to access storage aren't granted so whatever these are for, it's not doing anything. The only thing I saw in the play store was an app/game (not sure what it was) my a developer from Germany "Mechanical Light". It was called iSwear. Do you have something like that installed?
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It's disabled because I disabled it... they were all on when I found them... i tried looking into it and didn't find anything so I came here hoping someone could tell me... is there any way to tell if it's malicious?
 
To determine if it's malicious, we first have to know what it is. The symbol on the one icon looks like a little sim card. Is there something from your carrier that is running some sort of persistent app? Is there anything in settings>apps (show all) that looks unusual?
 
lunatic59 said:
To determine if it's malicious, we first have to know what it is. The symbol on the one icon looks like a little sim card. Is there something from your carrier that is running some sort of persistent app? Is there anything in settings>apps (show all) that looks unusual?
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I took a look and nothing seemed suspicious... should I turn them all back on and recheck?
 
Permissions to access storage wouldn't prevent an app that was installed from showing up in the list. I'd leave them off and see if anything stops working.
 
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