[Hot News] [SOLVED]: Cannot Delete App, Operation Not Permitted - Android

[Hot News] [SOLVED]: Cannot Delete App, Operation Not Permitted - Android
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Kategori : 2016 adb Android Malware SMARTPHONE TABLETS VIRUS

There are some rogue Android malware apps out there that gets installed itself as an Android system app in the system partition there by rendering themselves undeletable. These kind of apps gets automatically installed if you have a rooted Android smartphone or tablet with permissions to allow 3rd party apps to get installed from "Unknown Sources".

These type of Android malware apps gets installed into the system partition and marks themselves as immutable as a result of which they cannot be removed from the system.

If you have been hit by a similar kind of Android malware app on your rooted Android device and are struggling to work around a way to uninstall this Android malware app, then follow these steps to successfully remove this Android app:

Connect your rooted Android smartphone to a linux terminal with adb support and login to the adb shell of the Android smartphone.
Inside the adb shell, type the following command:

lsattr system/priv-app/

This would result in an adb output from the lsattr command that shows something like this:
-------------iA----------
Here the "i" attribute means the file is immutable and hence write and delete protected!

But since you have a rooted Android smartphone, you can fire up the Android device busybox tool and mount the system partition to be writable:

busybox mount -o remount,rw /system

after this, you can change the attribute of the malware apk file using the command:

chattr -i system/priv-app/

After this command, you should now be able to remove the Android malware apk file using rm command.

While this might have removed the suspicious Android malware apk, you may also have to ensure that it hasnt installed traces of itself under other /system sub folders.

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