Android DT automated app installer now spotted on Verizon phones, is your phone clean? ?

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If you read about it, it is quite scary.
It allows the carrier to get into your phone and install software such as promotions, ads, banners, etc.
The software can bypass the installer and install it self without your knowledge or consent.
It can also install bloatware which uses the metered data you use at your expense.
Right now it has been on the note 4 and the Lg g3 (from what I read).
It is real and currently in all the news. The crazy thing about the software is that it is granted access to all information on your phone and can install anything it wants w/o your knowledge or consent...actually you can't even say no or uninstall it. Currently the only phones that seem to be immune are the nexus phones and of course any windows/apple products.

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@TBO27, I've tried that and it does stop the downloads and installs but only temporarily. The next time I connect the WiFi it starts downloading and reinstalling again.
@Tidbits, No, that app isn't preinstalled. I can uninstall it easily enough but it really gets annoying when a bunch of the old apps get reinstalled one after the other. I chose Sharesfinder as an example. There are many others. I had downloaded a few electronics tutorials and simulators 2 phones ago and even they get put back...sigh.
When I bring up my Google Play Apps on the PC I can bring up the settings where it asks whether or not to show each phone in the menus. There is a checkbox for each phone. That and a button to rename the phone. I unchecked all the phones from there except the latest, most current phone but it is as if this list was being ignored.
I reset the phone a few days ago but this time I unchecked the google backup and restore. I have to keep it off until I figure this out unfortunately...
edit: Since I was testing a paid backup app I reset the phone and since I didn't let Google reinstall anything automatically but installed all my apps myself, the "My Apps" in Google Play showed only those few apps I installed myself. Everything looks as it should. I was quite happy that it finally "took" and stopped the extra app nonsense. Sad to say that when I checked that box for Google to backup and restore my Apps, passwords, settings, etc. then POOF...all those old unwanted apps came back....sigh.

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@TBO27, I've tried that and it does stop the downloads and installs but only temporarily. The next time I connect the WiFi it starts downloading and reinstalling again.
@Tidbits, No, that app isn't preinstalled. I can uninstall it easily enough but it really gets annoying when a bunch of the old apps get reinstalled one after the other. I chose Sharesfinder as an example. There are many others. I had downloaded a few electronics tutorials and simulators 2 phones ago and even they get put back...sigh.
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[App installation path]\MediaIO\systempresets\[exporter subfolder]
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I should put a link from page 177 to page 35 on plug-in installation. There it gives the Premiere Pro app path you’re looking for:
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Sequence preview presets:
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Encoder presets:
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