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How to remove inbuilt app?

What do you mean "has inbuilt itself?". To me those words imply it did not come with the phone (or come as part of a system update) but has managed to install itself to the system partition. I've never heard of Touchpal doing that, nor should any app be able to with a modern version of Android (unless you are rooted). And although it's a bit rubbish I've never heard of it containing malware as you describe, so this is all a bit surprising.

If you just mean you can't uninstall it, check it isn't listed as a device administrator. If it is, untick that before trying to uninstall.

If it really is in /system you need root to remove it, or else reflash the device completely with the official firmware (provided that does not include this app itself).
 
i do not see how malware can install something like a system app on a phone that is no rooted. that would be some crazy and very sophisticated malware to install a system app onto your phone with out your permission.

why not try a simple factory reset and start over. that should delete whatever was installed.
 
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i do not see how malware can install something like a system app on a phone that is no rooted. that would be some crazy and very sophisticated malware to install a system app onto your phone with out your permission.
It used to be possible: if one of those "one click rooting apps" works on your phone then the same exploit could be used to install malware to /system. That's why it's a good thing those things don't work on modern phones.

But Touchpal was never that. So I guess one more question would be "why do you think your very slow starting is due to Touchpal?" Also why do you think that is due to malware?
 
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