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Originally Posted by mdp
Interesting, I checked. I passed the zip file to virustotal, and it is recognized as infected by two antivirus over 59, Avast and AVG (check the attached table).
Of course, the file I posted, code-wise, contains a radically minimal instruction (just, in Android terms, "declare an intent to open the settings and perform it") - the low-level code is again attached -, plus two pieces of the Android code from google that are inserted automatically for compatibility between android versions (android.support.annotation and android.support.v4).
So, the conclusion would be: in an age of information science (of models), antivirus software still can immensely suffer from false positives besides false negatives. Moreover, I will not believe that Avast and AVG found a missing detail when the 57 other software application did not, and I tend to believe that they are simply identifying viruses through hashes that are too subject to collision to be fingerprints.
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Yeah, weird that. Hadn't known about Total Virus. Hadn't been looking for anti-virus tools in some time. Very useful to know about.
Interestingly, when I unzipped the file and uploaded it to Total Virus to do a check, Avast found no problem with it.
So, thank you for the Android Settings app/file. It is good to have it back. I find it much easier to navigate the various settings than the system Onyx employs. I also sometimes like to see what apps are running in the background when I haven't specifically launched them.
That's what prompted me to switch from the immensely popular ES file explorer app to the FX one a number of years ago. In addition to the bloatware which ES kept pushing, it was always running in the background and would automatically restart again after I performed a "force stop" on it.
And thank you also for alerting me to Total Virus. I will get some use out of that tool.