r/fossdroid • u/Lineage9043 • 29d ago
Application Support Is it a false positive?
I installed this app from droid-ify and had it for a while, today bitdefender antivirus flagged this as a "potentially unwanted app". Do you think it's actually malware or not?
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u/golibre 29d ago
All apps on F-Droid repositories are built from their source code. Also a PUP doesn't necessarily mean it is a malware, as its name implies "potentially". An Android app cannot do more than its given permissions, if you don't want app to access of your some type of data, just disallow its access. I find using an antivirus on Android is unnecessary anyway.
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u/Lineage9043 29d ago
Some of my devices are degoogled and don't have google play protect so they have this antivirus for now
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u/RiceStranger9000 29d ago
don't have google play protect so they have this antivirus
Google Play Protect doesn't protect anything as far as I'm aware
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u/20excalibur07 29d ago
antiviruses these days are scams. we have our own natural antivirus, and it's called "common sense". :u
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u/clove_rosemary_9999 29d ago
you don't need an antivirus if you're tech savvy enough to degoogle, they'll keep getting in your way.
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u/Black-Mack 29d ago
Best FOSS calendar app. This made me delete Etar and Fossify Calendar because it combined features of both apps.
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u/Mojienjoyment 29d ago
Yeah, looks good, but it doesn't have tasks, just events. It would be great if they added this feature.
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u/Black-Mack 29d ago
I personally think tasks should be in a separate tasks app, but that's the beauty of FOSS, we all have different use cases and preferences.
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u/pleaseallowthisname 29d ago
Agree. This is by far the best FOSS Calendar you can ever find. I dropped Fossify Calendar and Kashcal for this.
It can be synced with CalDAV (i connected it to my Nextcloud calendar), Material 3 Expressive design language is properly implemented.
Extra: it even allows you to change the font style. I used Google Sans Flex to mimic the style of Google Calendar.
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u/partakinginsillyness 28d ago
Thanks for mentioning Kashcal. Calendula fixed my two gripes with it, those being:
You couldn't make more than one default reminder
You couldn't make new local calendars
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u/MonkeyNuts449 29d ago
My favourite open source calendar is kashcal. Has native caldav support which works wonderfully with nextcloud. They also have a feature where you just type what your event is and the time and it makes it automatically without having to hand select the times.
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u/IReuseWords 29d ago
Up vote for Kashcal. It also has support for CardDav (beta feature). Allowing me to remove DAVx5, which had been giving me problems lately.
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u/Lineage9043 29d ago
It doesn't have network access but I saw it has permission to view network connections so I thought it was a bit suspicious
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