I think you can make malware with App Inventor

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With Taifun's file extension, you can make a file deleter that can probably delete personal files (like images, text and more) so yeah check if there is any file deleting blocks :fearful:. image

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You didn't read Q.4
https://puravidaapps.com/file.php

In general with linux, you cannot simply delete a folder anyway, you have to remove all the files from it first.

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@TIMAI2
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yeah I guess.
I don't use linux oh and i do know that android is linux

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I recommend you research and read up before making such statements in the future....

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theoreticlly you can use almost everything to do harm...
for example take a shovel to kill someone... so this is the responsibility of the developer...
but as @TIMAI2 already said, I intentionally did not add a delete folder method, because also you as developer could delete your complete internal sdcard by accident while developing...

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@Taifun
maybe not personal files but system files
im a linux noob so i dont know but i think that u can make a system file deleter
ALSO MALWARE IS NOT MALWARE IF IT DOSENT TAKE UR MONEY
what i mean is an extenion that can send SMS's also taifun im glad u didnt make the texting extenion overpowered so u can send SMS's

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@TIMAI2
Ok!

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Only below Android 6.
On android 6 and above you need Write permission to create/modify/delete files.

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@vknow360
i know this

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Just in curiosity, is there way to fire the command rm -rf with app inventor(even if we have to make a seperate extension)

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yes you can

Taifun

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K thats a format command so it counts!

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But you'll need the administrator perms

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