25/09/2026
Your phone is slow. It's probably not malware.
It's more likely a battery three years into its life, a storage drive that's nearly full, an operating system built for newer hardware, or forty apps refreshing in the background.
Malware does have signals — they're just more specific than slow. Data use you can't explain. Charges you didn't make. Adverts appearing on your home screen rather than inside a free app.
That last one is the clearest tell. Ads inside a free app are the deal you accepted. Ads on your home screen are something you didn't agree to.
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