Toast message with Chinese characters, is it a virus? I recently received some updates today from the Play Store. Every so often a pop notification, one of those bubble ones at the bottom of the screen with Chinese characters.

The most recent update I've noticed is the ES File Explorer. I wouldn't mind, but my device is rooted and so I am at risk. I have a screenshot of the notification.

My device is the Samsung Galaxy Tab A 9.7 and I have stock ROM installed.



What my question(s) are: Do I have a virus (it's not being picked up by Avast) and if I do, how do I remove it?
Based on the information given, it's indeed caused by the latest update (9 July 2016) of ES File Explorer. From some of recent reviews,


This new version has a new issues, whenever I open the ES file explorer it's showing some errors in Chinese language. It's affecting other apps too... (link)

Latest was a series of Chinese toast notifications being displayed even when not using the App. (link)

new problem raised while using app some chinese lang messeges display which is distracted the main usage (link)

Latest update now causing messages in Chinese to popup near the bottom of the screen. (link)

and many more...



I don't think it's a virus. It supposed to be kind of &quot;helpful&quot; messages to the user (who can read it).