Android admob quarantined by symantec

Question

This morning I came back to my computer with this alert, see the image (the lower window is the properties of one of the entries above):

How do I investigate this? Can i use the hash presented to see if it is a false positive? Has anyone else encountered this?

Worth noting could be that I havn't changed anything about the android frameworks recently.

I just got the exact same thing, without having made any changes lately. I don't have an answer, but now we're two, at least. — Erlend D., Jul 18 '17 at 11:32
I've just let it remain quarantined for now, if someone verifies it as a false positive then one could report it here https://submit.symantec.com/false_positive/ . .. ofcourse after providing their findings here ;) — Adam, Jul 19 '17 at 10:09

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 20 '17 at 20:19

Google AdMobs is flagged as a security risk by Symantec because:

This advertisement library may perform the following actions:

Display advertisements in the host application

Send device location (such as GPS coordinates, cell tower location) to a remote location

For some reason Google Play Services was installed on my machine even though Android Studio SDK Manager did not list it as installed:

Android admob quarantined by symantec

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