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> Rather than disappear it from the Store entirely, it would be nice if Google could leave a placeholder with a warning; at least it would serve an educational purpose.

This would also make the Play Store look bad.

Which would also be fitting, wouldn't it? Google missed it and dropped the ball.

If the purpose is education, I feel emails or some other direct notification would be far more helpful. It's not like we usually go to an app's Play store page after installation, save reviewing.

Or in this case, rolled back to a previous non-infected version.

The new versions are also unaffected. It only had malware for a period of time while the developers were using a 3rd pat library with the malware.