New Television icon appeared in my Android desktop I have noticed a new Television icon appeared in my Android desktop. I have not clicked the icon thinking it could be a virus or spam. Never installed any Television application and I dont know how it appeared there. I have also Avast mobile antivirus installed.
Just saw this thread, it could be the same issue but wanted to be sure before deleting the icon:
Who is creating icons?

I looked in installed programs with Link2SD and with Android Task manager, and took a look to all programs and services one by one, but there is nothing installed with that name or icon.

Trying to guess what is it, dragged and dropped the icon to the information place in ADW Launcher desktop and it shows: "Android System" running process, which is a core Android process. 

I remember having run "free GPSFix" some days ago, which is one of the applications which creates spam with red star messages at the top bar, but not sure if it could be also the application which created the icon.

This is the picture: 



*Deleted data and cache, and uninstalled with Link2SD the free applications GPSFix and Dados applications, they could be the reason of spam icons:
GPSfix
Dados (dices)
The GPSFix app is known for this kind of spam (see its comments on the Playstore), even AntiVirus/AntiMalware apps classify it as adware (taken from those comments, again).

Hence, my recommendation is:


optionally post a comment on the playstore to warn other users
uninstall that app
delete that icon (do not "start" it, as you cannot know where it takes you -- it might introduce more problems)


These kind of trouble-makers are no unknowns. Please see the questions tagged malware to find similar reports.

The playstore has enough replacement apps not offering those "unwanted side-effects" (take e.g. a look at GPS Status &amp; Toolbox). So no need to shed any crocodile tears over that one app :)