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The five malicious apps are:

  1. Phone Cleaner - File Explorer (com.volabs.androidcleaner)
  2. PDF Viewer - File Explorer (com.xolab.fileexplorer)
  3. PDF Reader - Viewer & Editor (com.jumbodub.fileexplorerpdfviewer)
  4. Phone Cleaner: File Explorer (com.appiclouds.phonecleaner)
  5. PDF Reader: File Manager (com.tragisoap.fileandpdfmanager)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

I recently bought a Xiaomi Phone and was shocked how bad their filebrowser is. Full of ads and connections to other file apps like nextcloud are missing.

(I've installed lineageos now.)