Self-installing apps

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Hello,
here's my problem: I've had a Galaxy SII for almost a year now, and I've just noticed that for the past few days, games are installing themselves. Whenever I browse through my menu, I see an application I didn't ask for (mostly games). I also have the opposite effect; I installed a game (2048), and every day I have to reinstall it because it disappears.
I've had Avast antivirus on my phone from the start, and I ran Malwarebytes Anti-Malware on it, but it didn't detect anything.
What should I do, please?

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  1. Moderator
    Hello,

    and I just noticed that for the past few days I had game applications installing themselves,
    that's called a virus. This virus probably didn't come in by itself. Which application did you install recently? Did you make sure to install it from the Play Store and not from a website?

    Try uninstalling your latest apps...

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    1. In the end, after asking the question, I found the solution to my problem. Indeed, I had an Android emulator on my PC and using my Google account, it was installing the latest apps from the emulator. I uninstalled it and things are much better now.
      And I never download apps from sites; I know what that does... but thanks for your help anyway :)
    2. Moderator
      Glad you resolved your issue...and that you shared your solution ;)
    3. Hi, please, I have the same problem as him. It's true that I recently installed some applications and I think I have a virus, but I don’t know how to get rid of it (the applications install themselves even when offline).
    4. I have the same problem :'(
    5. me too
      tel: Lenovo A319