Push Bogus 'Battery Upgrade' not spotted by avast?

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Just had a notification for a battery upgrade app. Tapped on it to try and get details so that I could complain to somebody however it automatically tried to download an app. I stopped this manually but thought that avast should have spotted this as it turns out this app is bogus. It is designed to get your contacts and can earn money by making premium rate texts.
This article appeared last October so it’s not new.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/241967/sleazy_ads_on_android_devices_push_bogus_battery_upgrade_warnings.html

Regards
Pete (Motorola Atrix)

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Hello,
do you still have that app? Can you send it to me please? Or to virus at avast.com zipped with password and write password to body of email.
Regards,
Jan

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No I never actually got the app. As I said I managed to stop it before it had finished downloading. looking at my browser history though I mananged to get this.

get.batteryoptimizer.net/lp6.d/index.html?utm_source=cb&utm_campaign=2012-01-25.a&utm_term=uk&custom_tag=en-smsplan-UK&cc=gb&click_key=1029df2581de12810249fe62905778

Perhaps that will help?
Rgds
Pete

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Hello,

thanks for bringing that to our attention. The detection will be added in the next VPS.

Best regards

Alena Varkockova