Hey guys what's up it's Charlie here and today we're going to be looking at 8
dangerous apps you need to delete now believe it or not there may be some
dangerous apps on your phone right now these apps to a variety of bad things
and you should delete them but these apps often hide in plain sight and most
people probably have at least one on their phone but before we get into it
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have weather apps with apps or a kind of app which is super popular but some
weather apps especially ones on Android often contain a lot of viruses years ago
with our apps were super popular your phone likely does come with a weather
app but it's pretty basic that's why many people downloaded various different
kinds of weather apps however it turned out many of these weather apps actually
contained many viruses and things called Trojans because mainly older people
download weather apps these app developers thought no one would notice
but obviously people did notice when they realized money going out of their
bank accounts that's because some of these with apps actually have a Trojan
in them this is basically something that records every single key you press on
your keypad that means whenever you're entering in passwords or credit card
info if the app sees this this information was then sent to the very
dodgy developers of these apps and then they stole a lot of money one of the
most popular apps was called good weather but according to we live
security this turned out to be a malicious app that stole information of
users so make sure you only download legit weather apps and don't download
ones which have viruses next up is unknown antivirus so with all these apps
out there that can give you a virus many people download antivirus apps onto
their cell phones but ironically a lot of the time these anti viruses contain
viruses now there are some antivirus apps out there which are totally fine
but you need to make sure before you download an anti-virus app it's from a
known developer be sure to look into the developer and if it's something legit
like Norton then you should load it but if you've never heard of the
developer or they seem suspicious then avoid that app at all costs some
antivirus apps even contain adverts that doesn't necessarily mean they'll give
you a virus but most people don't want unnecessary ads all over their phones
the reason why there's so many fake antivirus apps is because developers
realize it's easier to make an anti-virus app than a virus an
anti-virus apps need access to all documents so they can scan through for
any viruses but of course these fake antivirus apps use it for things like
stealing your passwords and personal data and in some cases these fake
antivirus apps have even completely locked the phone this means the person
who uses the phone cannot access it however someone else can remotely access
it and pretty much take over your phone next up is apps for increasing RAM for
anyone who doesn't know what Ram is it means random access memory this is how
much space you have in your phone for files and other things for example you
may have bought your phone with 12 gigabytes of RAM this means you can
store 12 gigabytes worth of photos apps music and documents but I'm sure we've
all got that message on our phones before saying you're almost all out of
storage that's why many people instead of buying a new phone or more RAM which
can be expensive download a free Ram increasing app but be warned there is no
way an app can increase RAM on your phone RAM is a piece of hardware and it
can't be downloaded it's actually a physical thing you need to put into your
phone the apps that claim to give you more RAM are usually just a ram
optimizers this means they just clear your temporary files which you can just
do anyway on your phone settings sometimes these Ram increasing apps
actually cost money which is a total ripoff and sometimes the free ones can
actually collect your data which is never a good thing also because it needs
to delete your temporary files it can look through all of your documents and
easily seize your data so be warned when it comes to downloading apps which claim
to give you more free RAM next up we have lie detectors
it kind of goes without saying is that lie-detector raps are just a load of
rubbish maybe you can just use them for fun and pretend like it works and that
is why most people download them but the dangerous thing about these apps isn't
that they don't actually work instead it's been found that these apps
dramatically shorten your battery life these apps can easily track things like
your location or other things in the background and are always on most of
these app developers don't make too much money just from you downloading a free
app that's why they do things like collect your data sometimes and sell the
data to make money obviously this is not the case with every lie detector app but
be warned before downloading one if it asks you for access like things to your
personal contacts and other information then don't download it chances are they
just want your info and your data to sell also they take up tons of battery
space so be wary before downloading a lie detector app next up is social media
when I say you shouldn't have social media apps in your phone I'm not telling
you to go delete Facebook Instagram and other fun apps but oftentimes you may
have the wrong kind of app for what you need some social media apps like
Facebook take up a lot of battery space and storage that's because there's so
much stuff on the app and it often does run in the background but don't worry
because many developers actually make a lite version of their apps it's much
better to download the light version of many social media apps this light
version not only saves your battery life but it also costs less money let's say
you're browsing out and about on 3G these Lite apps take up way less data
from your phone which saves you money as well as battery life this is the case
for most social media apps so just make sure you download the right ones and
you'll save battery life and money next up is built-in browsers when you first
open up your brand new cell phone you likely have some internet browsers
built-in but these browsers are often not very good browsers which are built
right into phones are usually very slow and not very popular it's like using
Internet Explorer after getting a PC most people download something like
Chrome or Firefox instead well that's the exact same on your cell phone
whether it's knife phone or an Android you can download an app like the Google
Chrome app and it makes for a much better browsing experience unlike Google
Chrome these built-in browsers have no protection from data interception this
means people can hack and see what you're typing in very easily and any
information you put into that built in browser it's not necessarily secure not
only that they're also known for slowing down system performance and just not
working very well and having very few features so make sure when you buy a new
phone you download a new browser and don't use the built-in one next up we
have optimizers is your phone acting up or being really slow you may be feeling
down about this and then say an app saying we can clean your phone for free
well some things are too good to be true unfortunately many apps which claim to
be optimized as don't really optimize your phone at all instead these apps
often perform functions your phone can do anyway in its settings
that's stuff like clearing your phone's cache and unnecessary apps and programs
pretty much every phone can just do this on its own without downloading any
special apps ironically many of these optimizer apps actually slow your phone
down even more and also take up lots of battery space and not only that many of
these optimizers have a lot of adverts in them too so get ready to spend a few
hours a day closing down tons of random ads that pop up all over your phone and
these apps can also easily collect personal data so be warned when it comes
to downloading optimizer apps coming up next is defragmentation apps
he may be wondering what is the defragmentation app well defragmentation
is the process of arranging files into fragments for example you could fit many
files into one fragment which frees up a lot of space on your phone for example
you could put a lot of files in one fragment which frees up a lot of space
on your computer but be warned this only works on computers and does not work on
phones cell phones don't have hard drives for these apps to defragment most
phones already have this function anyway so you really don't need it these phones
don't save you any storage space like they claim as may even collect your
personal data these apps are very popular as people think they work the
same way they do on computers but really these apps are usually just lying to you
despite their good for views they may have next up is browsers with additional
features I've already told you that it's best to download a different browser
instead of using your phone's built-in one but when it comes to getting a
browser make sure you use one which is legit like opera Google Chrome or
Firefox downloading a dodgy one which has additional features like watching
movies or streaming music isn't usually a good idea a lot of the time these apps
have many adverts which is very annoying a good browser shouldn't have tons of
ads bombarding you all the time so make sure you download one without ads not
only that because of the additional features whether it be music movies or
games this can make your system very slow get ready for your battery life to
go from 100 to 0 very fast and not only a lot of the time these apps ask for
lots and lots of permissions including managing phone calls this is obviously
very unsecure and it's best to avoid apps they'll ask for way too much access
to your cell phone instead download a browser which is legit and you know
works well without any ads or dodgy features so those were the dangerous
apps you should delete right now from your phone but now it's time to vote in
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