Your Android, iPhone showing bad battery life, overheating? It could be malware INFECTED
Android and iPhone devices are among the most advanced mobile devices you can have today. However, with millions of such devices lying around the world, they often become great targets for hackers, thereby sending malware and other malicious stuff. Most of the time, both Google and Apple get to know about these malware or vulnerabilities, and quietly come up with a fix, thereby asking you to download the latest security patches. Sometimes, that may not be case and you could be needing to do something on your own to protect your data and your phone. How can you find out?
While there are no set guidelines to detect such anomalies, there are a few things you can observe to figure out whether your phone is infected by malware. And don’t worry, we won’t be asking you to sit down with your phone and tamper with its codes for these signs. These could be something as simple as observing the battery life and checking your SMS inbox, or messages on your web browser. Have a look.
We have all experienced our smartphones overheating almost frequently. But does it overheat? Often a malware while doing its job is using up your phone’s processor and other crucial resources, which eventually heats up the internals and your phone. If your smartphone is heating up a lot, check for the apps that you had installed recently and delete them, since they could have malware in them. Or, you can simply backup your crucial data and perform a hard reset.
Related to overheating, a malware operating in the background will suck all your battery to do its job. Hence, if you suddenly see a drop in battery life on your Android and iPhone, you should repeat the same steps and either delete the recently installed app, or perform a hard reset.
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