How to find and stop malicious background tasks from Android

There is a lot of malicious Android applications that can be used to compromise your phone. Once, such applications are installed on your phone then attacker can also send these malicious activities in background and hide application icons. Attacker can also set auto run or auto start permission to make these process persistence, It means when you reboot your device these tasks start automatically without you knowing

So, in this article we will know that how we can find and remove these malicious tasks or even any other normal task from background in Android.

step 1 - Enable developer option

To enable developer option in android, got to the Settings and then got to About phone . Here you will find build number or system version (in my case “MIUI version”) tap it 7 times. it will enable developer option you will also see a pop-up ‘You are now a developer!’.

 

step 2 - got to Additional settings 

 

step 3 - got to the Developer options

 

step 4 - Now, got to the Running services

 In the Running services setting, you can see all the running services or apps. You can also see how long a particular service or app has been running

In the above image you can see some of running services or apps with it’s uptime.

stop running service

If there is any unnecessary or malicious service or activity running on you device, then you can find that service or activity here and stop it.

when you tap on a particular service or app which currently running, you see two options stop and Report simply tap the stop to terminate process or service.

You can also stop unnecessary services or process which is no longer required, it will help you to increase device performance.