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Originally Posted by Graham
Was that the Android notification bar?
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Yes, it was the Android notification bar. The apps existed as backups of files on microSD cards used in my Android smartphones.
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If so, good work for ClamXav for spotting them when scanning from the Mac, but I wouldn't class that behaviour as being a virus - in the sense of a self-replicating threat to your data.
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What I meant to say was that the apps (and/or their attendant files) which ClamXav spotted were exhibiting suspicious behavior already. It isn't that I saw evidence of viral behavior, but rather that apps which spam the user in unusually invasive ways (the notification bar, the lockscreen, etc.) seem more likely to be infected because the persons who created them were interested in transgressing the boundaries of considerate/acceptable behavior, and viruses are a few steps further in that questionable direction.