Reply to post: Re: Malware, app.... all very similar

Two-thirds of Android users vulnerable to web history sniff ransomware

Dan 55 Silver badge

Re: Malware, app.... all very similar

I don't know why Play Services wants my contacts list, SMS, MMS, and so on... especially considering I already set my Google account to not synchronise anything.

You may think that if you don't syncronise those things in your Google account then it doesn't try to access them. Not so. Privacy Guard in CyanogenMod/OS still pops up a permission request for those things on behalf of Play Services if you set everything to 'ask', repeatedly. So I set everything to 'disable'.

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