![]() bug that has infected my Chromebook. On Chrome I have tabs opening by themselves advertising this poker and other Play Store items saying ‘click here to install on your phone.’ I have never authorized this tab. This was installed automatically somehow, it has something to do with a. Their cries of pain included these two users’ complaints: Weekly Android Apps opened additional windows, reset the users’ home page for their browsers, repeatedly opened new tabs or windows, and popped up yet more new windows after users closed the first unwelcome new windows. ![]() The apps were installed directly onto unwitting Android devices as the extension bypassed the operating system’s permissions process.Īs far as the 200,000 user base and the 4.5-star ratings go, those actually belonged to the poor old parasitized Running Fred. In fact, developers Ali Moiz and Murtaza Hussain, who run a software outfit called Vulcun, received payola for installing some of those apps on people’s mobile Android devices – without permission, mind you. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has settled a case against a pair of developers who bought a nice, mild-mannered, browser-based Chrome game called “Running Fred” and turned it into the app equivalent of a spam-spewing facehugger.Īs the FTC had said in its original complaint (PDF), the developers swapped out the 4.5-star rated game with their own extension, “Weekly Android Apps,” which they claimed was featured on sites like LifeHacker, MacRumors and Engadget, had been installed by 200,000 users, and provided “impartial, independent selection of apps.”
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