Updated my Samsung phone and it installed unwanted apps

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No they haven't. This is stuff is commonly installed with updates from the carrier.

Since when did carriers have permission to do this stuff? I don't remember stuff like this happening in 2014...

Ah yeha, sorry, didn't read the Mobile Services Manager. But this is a common malware attack though.