Verizon pre-install spyware pre-installed on customers’ Android devices in order to collect their personal data. Verizon has partnered with Evie Launcher to bring a new application called ” a universal search bar that will come preinstalled on the home screens of all Verizon Android handsets for quickly finding apps and web content. AppFlash is simply a Google search bar replacement, but instead of sending telemetry data including what you search, handset, apps and other online activities to Google, it will send to Verizon. Users can’t uninstall AppFlash quickly, unless they have rooted their phone.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2017/03/verizon-appflash-evie.html