Category: Huawei

The Google app and its synchronized applications, including Maps and Gmail, offer a world of possibilities to users. However, a peculiar situation has arisen, with certain smartphones identifying the Google app as potential malware and warning users against its usage.

This may sound bizarre, but it’s a fact. Users of Huawei, Vivo, and Honor phones have reported encountering a security threat notification when attempting to open the Google app. These devices are urging their users to uninstall the app due to its classification as a “Trojan SMS-PA” malware.

Remarkably, phones running their respective operating systems, with the exception of Vivo, are flagging the application developed by the American tech giant as a high-risk threat. When examining the threat details, the alert suggests that the Google Application is surreptitiously sending SMS messages, seemingly luring users into paying for explicit services.

From a technical perspective, this situation is a false positive, and it has extended to other applications under Alphabet Inc’s subsidiary, such as YouTube.

To delve into the context, both Honor and Huawei have a history of being banned during the tenure of former US President Donald Trump. This was because these phone manufacturers, closely tied to the Republic of China, were considered a potential national security threat, as they were suspected of transmitting misinformation to foreign servers, albeit discreetly.

The inclusion of Vivo in this controversial situation remains a mystery.

However, when this issue gained traction in various Android communities, Google clarified that the security alerts were being generated by devices lacking certification related to Google Play Protect. It is crucial for device manufacturers to provide an explanation for this error and potentially issue an app virus definition update within the next few days.

In the meantime, users can disable this false alarm by clearing the cache data through Settings > Apps > Optimizer > App Info > Storage tab or simply wait for the next 24 hours to get the latest updates.

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Donald Trump, during his regime as President of America, imposed a ban on the use of Huawei and Dahua products across the states as the two companies are alleged to be conducting corporate espionage to steal intellectual property. And western countries like Australia, the UK, Canada, and Europe followed the same.

But is this ban on not use or sell Chinese products working in the nation’s favor or is it just an illusion in which we are living or rather say our leaders are living?

If we take any electronic device into account, say a television to devices connected by the Internet of Things. Each of these items have at-least 2-3 parts that are manufactured and assembled in the Chinese Federation region.

That means, we or rather, say our leaders imposed a ban that is being or becoming ineffective. As most of the IoT devices say, sensors to transmitters are being used in a wide range of industrial applications, homes, offices and in vehicles.

So, is there a way to ban such items with an excuse that they are threatening our national infrastructure?

No way, as anything that is being connected to power and the internet is running on Chinese influence, that is now being considered as an adversary to our entire world- especially after the COVID-19 breakout.

According to a survey conducted by Cisco, most of the Telecom market domination is being done by 2 Chinese manufacturers- say Huawei and ZTE. And the fact is that all the components manufactured or bought from these companies are being used in running some cellular IoT modules produced by western countries like Tesla, Intel, Dell and Ford.

So, what’s the question of issuing a superficial ban on such products, when it doesn’t really work in practical?

 

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