Is this bad?

[Zeroel043]

I was just playing around with my phone when for some reason I stumbled upon permissions... on the list of apps with permission to my storage, I saw this.... there are about 112 of them and I don't know what these are... captain?

 

[lunatic59]

First off, the permissions to access storage aren't granted so whatever these are for, it's not doing anything. The only thing I saw in the play store was an app/game (not sure what it was) my a developer from Germany "Mechanical Light". It was called iSwear. Do you have something like that installed?

 

[Zeroel043]

First off, the permissions to access storage aren't granted so whatever these are for, it's not doing anything. The only thing I saw in the play store was an app/game (not sure what it was) my a developer from Germany "Mechanical Light". It was called iSwear. Do you have something like that installed?

It's disabled because I disabled it... they were all on when I found them... i tried looking into it and didn't find anything so I came here hoping someone could tell me... is there any way to tell if it's malicious?

 

[Zeroel043]

And no sir, I do not have an iSwear app...

 

[lunatic59]

To determine if it's malicious, we first have to know what it is. The symbol on the one icon looks like a little sim card. Is there something from your carrier that is running some sort of persistent app? Is there anything in settings>apps (show all) that looks unusual?

 

[Zeroel043]

To determine if it's malicious, we first have to know what it is. The symbol on the one icon looks like a little sim card. Is there something from your carrier that is running some sort of persistent app? Is there anything in settings>apps (show all) that looks unusual?

I took a look and nothing seemed suspicious... should I turn them all back on and recheck?

 

[lunatic59]

Permissions to access storage wouldn't prevent an app that was installed from showing up in the list. I'd leave them off and see if anything stops working.

 

[Zeroel043]

Permissions to access storage wouldn't prevent an app that was installed from showing up in the list. I'd leave them off and see if anything stops working.

Thanks man... I can sleep sound tonight xD