Thursday, October 24, 2013

Virus Notification of new version WhatsApp for Android - Volkskrant

By: Thomas van der Kolk – 10/24/13, 12:09

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Many Dutch with an Android phone getting their virus, indicating that the latest update of the popular messaging app WhatsApp contains a virus. This can be deduced from reactions in Google Play, the download store for Android.

writes technology site Tweakers. However, it is not clear whether it is actually a virus, or that the false alarm, a so-called “false positive” is.

Artemis It would be
the virus go to a variant of the Artemis virus. This is especially notorious for infecting Windows computers with malware, but it has not led to major problems on Android systems.

The users reporting the virus all seem to be making a virus McAfee. Use It is therefore possible according Tweakers that it is a software error at McAfee. A test of Tweakers itself has no malware on Whatsapp brought to light.

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