One spring afternoon, I received a call from my mom. My dad was facing an issue with his phone, specifically with a PDF that wouldn’t open. Despite the native office suite supporting PDFs on his mid-range HONOR, the document just refused to load. During his admirable but misguided attempts to fix the issue, he downloaded four random yet similarly named PDF apps from the Play Store. However, as I would come to discover, he hadn’t downloaded these apps deliberately — he had been conned into it.
From bloatware to deceitful ads to app installations
Downloading these apps didn’t solve his issue, though. Even with these apps and the preinstalled WPS Office at his disposal, the PDF still wouldn’t open. At this point, I thought the document itself might be at fault. Either way, this wasn’t a simple issue, made more complicated by trying to diagnose over the phone.