Android does not have Flash support so any pop up about Flash should get the alarm bells ringing in your head, if not keep reading.
by Paul Ducklin on July 25, 2014
"This latest Android ransomware reported by SophosLabs follows a familiar theme, very much like the Koler malware we wrote about in May 2014.
But the new malware has a slight sting in the tail that Koler didn't, making it trickier to remove.
So we thought we'd take you swiftly through the clean-up process.
FBILock-AThe malware, identified by Sophos as Andr/FBILock-A, masquerades as a Flash Player app:
http://sophosnews.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/fbi-1-499.png?w=998&h=462
Android doesn't have Flash support, and even Adobe's own Flash Player is no longer available as an add-on in the Play Store.
So this is may well seem like an enticing extra, and one for which you would expect to have to enable "Allow apps from unknown sources."
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Good info, thanks for posting it.
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