I hope somebody from Avast will jump in and tell us what is really going on here. Please join me in a concerted effort to force Polaris to remove this EXCESSIVE, INTRUSIVE and UNNECESSARY permissions. Haven't uninstalled Polaris (I need it) but I have revoked most of its excessive permissions (call phone, send sms, read & modify contacts as well as I have put it under Avasts firewall so it wouldn't be able to access the internet - unnecessary anyway). The antivirus reporting all these occurrences was always Avast, but the allegedly infected apps would vary by platform and phone manufacturers.

It seems to be a 'false positive' but even so this is concerning: as a member and frequent visitor&contributor to XDA Developers I have bumped into several complaints lately. I have installed the OFFICIAL Kaspersky Mobile Security and ran a full scan - no virus, trojan or malware was found. Although there were others signaling this, I have also reported it on Polaris' Facebook page ( ) 01.FT03 (from the Samsung account) Avast reported Android: MTK-A (Trojan). Anytime, anywhere, you can easily use various kinds of documents such as Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Adobe PDF, with only several tabs, and organize your data fast and do your presentation excellently.

Polaris Office is the easiest and strongest office products designed for mobile devices.

Same here (SGH-I317M - Note 2 Canada): after updating Polaris to version. The description of Polaris Office 4.0 App.

Polaris office 4.0