Help Suspiciously Behaving Tab

[Lana30]

Hi Friends,
My Buddy´s tab is acting very weird, I have never heard of a tab acting like this before. He thinks that someone is spying on him, I have no clue. He says he has some serious issues with 2 apps (monkey test and time service) in his HCL tab which frequently gets installed, reflects in screen “Time service stopped working”. Guessing above apps are virus:
He has have done factory reset but he still faces issues like::
* suddenly tablet doesnot respond [touch doesnot work]
* unknown apps gets installed [du speed booster, multiple others..]
* slow performance
* frequent notification of time service or monkey test

Help!

 

[lunatic59]

If the tab is not rooted, tell him to turn off WiFi and perform a factory reset. Unless the tab came with that stuff on it from the factory, then a reset should get rid of it. IF, however, the tab is rooted, then my guess is it will need a complete reflash of the factory firmware.

Everything I could find on HCL tells me it's an off-brand budget device that ost likely came rooted with this stuff installed and even if there was firmware to reinstall it might actually have the malware cooked into it. My recommendation is to replace it.