Named & Shamed
SOFTWARE WARNING!
Don’t install Photo Recover-File Recovery app
Keumars Afifi-Sabet puts the boot into tech villains, jargon-spouting companies and software trying to trick you
Back up your photos. Do it often. And keep your backups in different locations. While it’s easy to dish this advice out, not everyone follows it. That’s probably why photo-recovery apps are a popular last resort.
One tool in particular, ‘Photo Recover-File Recovery’ (www.snipca. com/56354), has become so popular that it’s shot to second in the Google Play Store charts, with only the Government’s One Login app keeping it off the top spot (see screenshot 1 ).