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Make sure to reboot the phone. Doing so should clear our the malware if the phone is still getting updates.
Oh, it was sometime mid last week that I had to remove about a dozen obviously (to me anyways) fake antivirus, cleaner, and PDF reader apps from her phone. They were spamming her phone left and right saying her phone was full of viruses (of course the malware itself) and saying she was out of storage space (in fact she's only got 32% space used).
Then of course Samsung, in their infinite wisdom, had to default the power button action to Bixby, which she don't even use, so I had to go search through the settings to figure out how to configure the power button with the typical sane power/restart menu.
After all that, her phone seemed to work basically perfectly, so I told her to keep me updated on how it works out in the long run, while also respecting her wishes regarding the bible apps, although I was already a bit suspicious of those too.
Yesterday she said she's getting almost no spam crap like that anymore. Almost? Means there's still something going on, and I have that sneaky suspicion that the whole avalanche of malware she ended up with started from a random seemingly innocent daily notification from one of those bible reader apps.
You know what's the worst part about all this? Mama gets all her apps from the Google Play Store...