There are more than 3.6 billion Android users across the country. This operating system is available in phones ranging from cheap smartphones to premium segment phones. As such, Android users are always an easy target for scammers who send malware to hack customers' data and information. The biggest problem for Android users is that side apps can be easily installed in it, that is, any third party app can be easily installed. In simple language, any app can be installed from anywhere in Android.
Google, the original owner of the Android operating system, knows this very well. Due to the awareness of this problem, Google also provides its Android users the facility to scan the phone. Through which users can scan the phone and know about malware or virus. Apart from this, anyone can scan their phone by installing an antivirus app. But how, let's know further in this article.
Find out if your phone has a virus by following these simple steps below.
First of all unlock your phone and go to Google Play Store. – Now tap on the profile photo visible on the right side corner. Now you will see Play Protect written there, click on it. Later you will get an option labeled Scan. Click on it.
After this process, in just two minutes Google Play Store will scan all the apps installed in your phone and if there is any suspicious app, it will also give information about it. In this way you can easily check whether your phone has a virus or not.
If there is a virus in your phone, remove it like this. Follow the steps given below.
First, power off and reboot your phone. Thus, powering off or rebooting solves most phone problems. It is also an easy way to remove power from a piece of hardware. If your hardware is infected with malware or other viruses, rebooting will have no effect.
Then reinstall the operating system. You have to do this step very carefully. Because reinstalling the operating system will erase all your data. So before doing this, keep all your data in backup.