No I guess they are pre install ed. I had a phone, an Alcatel completely taken over, and I switched to I phone, then it was taken....and I couldn't replace it so I bought this one. I think the malware came with it. I am noticing more and more of the funny android head apps, and I notice that I am having a lot of blank screens and glitches in apps loading. Nothing seems to be downloading to my phone as I am constantly having to redownload when I want to open something. Uuuugggghhhhh.
I will go and manually look at the playstore now and report back my findings.
Thank you for your response.