High and medium risk false positives

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It appears that the Android mobile security app is detecting a large number of high and medium risk apps. Several of these are being picked up due to a high background data usage or high battery use. Some examples are Kindle, subway, weather channel, Google drive, amongst others. I realize i can hit trust on some of these but the list keeps changing every few days.

The other surprising piece is that apps such as PayPal and Hulu constantly come up as high risk due to privacy data they share such as sim card data. Talking with both companies, they claim my data is safe.

Wondering if the Norton app is too sensitive? Not always a bad thing but in this case, having 15 reputable apps on the high and medium risk list might border on paranoia.

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jhenry1014

Are you seeing the same things noted in the posts above? What feature is being noted as the high risk? If it is Data usage, it is like what has been posted above by myself and by @telebears. You are given this message as a warning that the app may use a lot of data, which could cost you extra money if you are on a limited cell data plan. If this is all that is being warned about, you can decide if you have enough data limit, or if you only use wifi, you can just trust the app.

 

 

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Hi Telebears,  I saw this post and wanted to follow-up.  I just installed Norton and my Spotify app is showing up as high risk.  I installed it from Playstore just a few days ago.  Is this a false positive?