Last night, I accidentally clicked a link from Reddit that took me to a site called hot audio.net. It's a German site, and I quickly closed it and cleared my browsing data. However, when I woke up this morning, I found a couple of match-2 games installed on my Samsung phone. I'm worried that I might have been hacked. What do you think?
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Honestly, Samsung devices can sometimes add games or apps with updates, which is super annoying. You might not be hacked at all; it could just be a system update that came with those games. Double-check your recent downloads and see if any weird apps popped up.
If you didn't click on anything suspicious like ads or notifications, you should be fine. Just run a full scan on your phone, check your download history, and make sure no apps have crazy permissions you didn't grant. The site you mentioned seems a bit shady since it's a relatively new domain, so staying cautious is smart.
Yeah, it’s frustrating! I deal with that on my work phone too, but my phone hasn’t updated recently, so I’m still weirded out.