I’ve seen numerous nasty infections due to Android malware in my uncle’s phone. Random ads and objects swirling on the homescreen whenever he used certain apps. Some phone manufacturers like Redmi and RealMe also show advertisements in their settings, browser, etc. section, but they're not due to malware. To remove the advertisements caused by malware you can do the following: Go to the settings section and determine which applications are unknown to you and try to uninstall them. If you’re unable to uninstall it then you will have to do a factory reset or hard reset on your phone. Take the backup of the important files. Images and videos’ backup can be done on Google photos. Other files like PDFs, songs can be backed up on a laptop. Backups of your application settings will be available on your Google account if you’ve enabled sync. Go to Backup and Reset in the settings section and perform the Factory Reset or Hard Reset. After y...
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