Quote:....When it comes to mobile malware, a little bit of paranoia goes a long way. Malicious apps can steal your personal information, including sensitive financial information that can then be used to steal your identity. A lot of malware ends up on your phone due to malicious apps. So what are signs that you might already have a malicious app on your phone?


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Slow Internet Connections
A slow Internet connection doesn’t always mean malware, but it is one of the few symptoms that even the most sophisticated malware can’t hide. Whether a malicious app is phoning home, communicating information about you or using your mobile device as part of a botnet scheme, it’s going to be using Internet bandwidth to do it. So if your connection speeds are all of a sudden crashing down to nothing, that can be a very clear sign that there’s something amiss with one of your apps.

 
Large, Unexplained Charges
On the same token, one giveaway that you have a malicious app is that your phone bills are way bigger than what they ought to be. Massive phone bills can result from a malicious app that’s a data hog or a malicious app that’s sending lots of premium text messages, then sticking you with the bill. There are few surer signs that you’ve become a victim of a malicious app than by getting an astronomical phone bill with your name on it. If this happens, call up your phone company and start thinking seriously about which one of your apps is the culprit.

Using Too Much Data
Even if you don’t have huge charges, you want to keep an eye on your overall data usage. For example, you might have an unlimited data plan. In this case, a bill might not tell you much about what a malicious app is doing to your phone. You’d have to actually check the data usage to see if you had become a victim of a malicious app. Keep an eye on your data plan. Look for spikes in data usage. Again, this is one of the ways that even some of the most low-key malicious apps can give themselves away. There’s just no way to hide the use of data....