Fake Bad Piggies Game Hits the Google App Store, Contains Viruses

A fake version of Bad Piggies has hit the Google App Store—a service which isn't as well vetted as its Apple counterpart. According to a report on Pocket Gamer, the fake version of the Angry Birds spinoff title is loaded with some nasty adware viruses and over 80,000 people have been affected by it thus far.

The site reports that if you've downloaded Bad Piggies from the Google App Store for Chrome, you may be one of the victims.

“As of Oct. 2, 2012, there are about 82,593 Chrome users who installed these ads-injected plugins, and the total number is still climbing fast day by day, e.g., about 13K new installations from October 1 to October 2.”

“A suggestion to Chrome users; whenever trying to install a plugin inside the Chrome web store, consider the requested permissions with a critical eye toward the intent of the plugin.”

If you intend to download Bad Piggies from the Google App Store, make sure the version you're getting is published by Rovio Mobile and no one else. Or better yet, just get an iPhone.