Update: As if the story below wasn't bad enough, later the same day I suddenly got a persistent popup for a "Charging Screensaver" that also, miraculously, promised to increase charging time by 20% ...

Android has long prided itself for how it allows users to dig into most of the file system, provided they have a file manager app on hand. Of the latter, ES File Explorer was once the cream of the ...

A hidden web server always running in the background was found by security researcher Robert Baptiste in ES File Explorer, an Android file manager with over 100,000,000 installs displayed on the ...

ES File Explorer has been on Android since time immemorial, but it has been getting a little bloated since being acquired a while back. The most recent update might be the last straw for many users.