Some Huawei and erotice massage mnHonor smartphone users overseas reported last week that their devices had misidentified the Google app as a “TrojanSMS-PA” virus, a type of malware that can send messages without a user’s consent. According to feedback posted online, affected models include Huawei P10, Huawei P20 Pro, Huawei P30 Pro, Huawei P40 Pro, Huawei Mate 20 X, Huawei Nova 5T, and Honor Magic 5 Lite, operating in various languages. Members of the Google community offered two solutions online: disabling and deleting all Google apps before reinstalling, or clearing the cache and data of the phone management app, and updating the phone management app’s virus library. [IThome, in Chinese]
