App Anomaly 7 Scans in a week

Rollamite

Hi, as the app unfortunately can't tell you what's triggering the apps anomaly scans I just wanted to ask if this was normal behaviour, as it has me a little worried, regular scans come back that the device is clean and I've gone through most app permissions and special accesses to revoke those that aren't used or justified, but something still triggers app anomaly.

Is there any scope to add into the report what triggers these scans?

Assuming if the device states it's clean then these are false positives?

Huawei P30 Pro (I appreciate Huawei itself may be the issue here)

agozob

Hello!

This is completely normal, there's nothing to worry about.

App Anomaly Detection scans happen whenever an app installed on your device performs an action which could, in certain situations, indicate that something phishy is going on. The fact that none of those scans triggered an alert means that you're safe. They are not false positives, since you didn't get any detection/alert.

I'll give you a real life example to understand the situation: imagine you are a dog lover and have multiple dogs at home. You are the App Anomaly Detection feature and the dogs are your apps. Every time you hear one of the dogs bark, that's a scan being triggered - you quickly go and check why was it barking. If the dog was simply hungry or wanted attention, then you're all good. You just scanned what happened and everything was ok given the context and the decoded meaning of the sounds it was making. But if the dog got mad and was barking at another one of your puppies trying to intimidate it, or maybe even worse, barking at an intruder, then you got a detection. Now, of course, some dogs bark all day long, others rarely bark and some maybe not at all. Ehh…I don't know, I'm not much of a story teller but I'm trying my best :)

Hope I answered your concerns. I'll be waiting for my Nobel Prize in Literature now 😄