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Vier Jahre mehr Zeit und einen Rabatt von rund 200 Millionen Euro hat Googles Rechtskampf mit der EU gebracht. Immerhin.

Concurrence: la justice de l'UE valide une amende record contre Google

Make sure youre always on the freshest version of Android by learning how to check for and apply updates

If you use an Android device, you may have come across an app called Android System WebView. It’s a system app that regularly receives updates via the Google Play store. But what does it do, and should you remove it?

Although you are not using any Google apps, you may receive a pop up error message "Google Keep Stopping." It means that your device is probably running on

Android System WebView is an essential part of the Android OS that lets apps display web content without starting a separate web browser app.

Now all the apps that are available on the Google Play Store go through Google Play Protect’s automatic safety checks. However, these checks previously did not scan for these types of issues. “As part of our effort to help ensure broad protection against these issues, we shared our research with Google, and Google Play Protect now identifies these types of vulnerabilities,” said Microsoft.

The vulnerabilities, which affected apps with millions of downloads, have been fixed by all involved parties.

Microsoft has disclosed 4 new high severity vulnerabilities in a framework used by pre-installed Android system apps with millions of downloads.

The problems lied with a popular framework offered by mce Systems.