Is "Font Manager" harmful?

[Android Central Question]

I am an android phone user and recently "play protect" (which is a security app of Play Store) warned me to be careful with this android app ("Font Manager"). I looked it up and i found out that this app has exactly the priveleges which block my phone( it closes my apps, opens WIFI without warning me, downloading apps from internet e.t.c). I couldnt delete Font Manager so I turned it off but problems still exist. Can anyone tell me how to get rid of it? Has anyone ever experienced something like that?

 

[belodion]

First, what do you mean by “turned it off?” Clear cache and data, Force Stop, Disable?

 

[mustang7757]

Which phone ?

This app was installed from play store or you downloaded it from another source?


I'll leave a Link to register so you can communicate here as a guest account you can only post questions but can't reply

https://forums.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?t=409154


Please provide any screen shot here
https://forums.androidcentral.com/showthread.php?t=413366

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! If that's a preinstalled system app, then it's possible the phone manufacturer slipped in some adware, which is not unheard of. Major brands like Alcatel and Xiaomi are known for officially putting adware in its preinstalled apps. So it's important to know which phone you have, as mustang7757 asked.

 

[rewolff]

Old thread, I know.
My android tablet is warning me: "Fontmanager is a harmful app, it has been disabled". Just like the TS here, it starts up again and the message reappears. I'm afraid it might be able to do malicious things to my tablet between starting and getting disabled... It needs to go.... But how?

 

[belodion]

Old thread, I know.
My android tablet is warning me: "Fontmanager is a harmful app, it has been disabled". Just like the TS here, it starts up again and the message reappears. I'm afraid it might be able to do malicious things to my tablet between starting and getting disabled... It needs to go.... But how?

An old and useless thread to which the OP did not respond.

What tablet?

 

[rewolff]

Some stupid Chinese one (I got scammed: The ad promised a reasonably high-end one for which I was willing to pay $180, I got one very similar to the $100 one I bought years ago.). The "high end" is for example a > 1280x1024 screen. The screen feels to me like the 1024x768 on the old cheap tablet. But system info and AIDA64 say it is reasonably high-end. But chrome reports a window-size of 974x700 or something like that. I think they made something that will report the higher resolution when say aida64 requests it, but to make it work, chrome gets the real resolution: 1024x768.

So chances are that malware is pre-installed. No real surprise there. Does it matter what brand it is? Once I'm near the device I could look at the device info and report what it says.

 

[B. Diddy]

For those cheapo Chinese devices, it really doesn't matter what "brand" it is, since they're all just generic devices that get a random name slapped on them.

If there's no Uninstall option, then all you can hope to do is Disable it. As long as you don't power the tablet off, the app should remain Disabled. The only way you'd be able to uninstall it would be to root the device, and that's often difficult to do for these no-name devices -- you could try the forums at XDA-Developers.com.

You've learned this by now, but it bears repeating -- avoid these off-brand or no-name devices like the plague. They're not worth it, even at dirt cheap prices. Stick with reputable tablet manufacturers like Samsung, Lenovo, Nokia, and TCL.