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[barry.holroyd]

Solution found?

My wife's Bionic is now getting this. She tells me that various apps appear without her installing them -- she just deletes them, but eventually different ones appear.

The two that she just showed me (including the handango one discussed in this thread) are actually links to browser page -- not installed apps. As observed above, I suspect that some application has been given permission to "install" these -- i.e., create links to browser pages. I don't know if this is actually one of the permission options, but it seems like a reasonable guess.

Has anyone solved this? E.g., is there a way to search for applications that have been installed with a given permission?

Thanks,
Barry

 

[TisMyDroid]

Yes, air push detector should give you a list of any offending apps that push adds via homescreen icons or status bar notifications.

 

[Hugh_Hemington]

I tried Air Push Detector, but it failed to find the app. Then I want to the Amazon app where I get most of my apps and went in search, but I don't know what the permission would look like.

Any idea how they phrase the permission to spam your Favorites screen?

>> update:
I believe the "offending" permission is:
com.android.launcher.permission.INSTALL_SHORTCUT

and I found it on the app: QR Droid