Miui Reinstalling Default Apps Without Consent?

[CrayonMi]

Intro
Hi all, I'm new here and first of all I wanted to thank all developers and people involved in this project.
I bought my first Xiaomi phone around one month ago, it's a Redmi Note 4X and I'm quite happy for it's value/price ratio.
After unlocking bootloader I installed MIUI 8.6 7.7.13 from xiaomi.eu and then updated with 7.7.20, I rooted the phone and installed AFWall+ firewall as I always do, I also tried to stop services I'm not using but I'm having quite an hard time doing it in a clean way, even if I'm logged out from my MI account and AFAIK I disabled it in settings Find device, MI Drive, MI Cloud and Wallpapaer Carousel are still running sometimes in background.

Problem
Yesterday night I saw a AFWall+ notification, that happens everytime I install a new app to set its internet access, I opened it and I saw MIUI Forum app and WPS Office app were just been installed (or reinstalled I remember they were in global MIUI but I don't remember if they were preinstalled with xiaomi.eu rom and I unistalled them) so I unistalled the apps again and then I saw also Google Pinyin Input installed anew, checking with SystemPanel app it says First installed: July 31, 2017.

There is no need to say they I didn't install these apps, so what is happening here?
I remember some time ago there was a problem with a Analytics.apk reinstalling itself.
I have almost everything blocked from internet access on my firewall the only process not google branded I allowed access to internet is:
[10010] Media Storage, Download Manager, Downloads, MTP Host
Without that updates from playstore don't work but I'll try to enable it only when I need to run updates and see what happens.

Did anybody else experience the same problem?

 

[8166uy]

Sounds more like you have some malware app on your phone which installs that stuff...

 

[CrayonMi]

Sounds strange to me that a malware would install apps that are default on miui roms, plus I didn't install any app that I didn't previously use in my other phones without any problem.

 

[bugmenot1]

Very odd. I have never encountered such an issue. Xiaomi.eu doesn't come bundled with these apps. If you're rooted then you could freeze or uninstall the unwanted system apps from the Titanium backup app. But do be cautious, as uninstalling a core app will most likely cause boot loop.

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[CrayonMi]

Thank you for the info @bugmenot1, I know it's strange, I posted here to check if it happened to someone else, I still have no clue of what happened.
BTW I got your suggestion about disabling some of the system apps, and I noticed I can't disable finddevice:

mido:/ #pm disable com.xiaomi.finddevice
Package com.xiaomi.fiddevice new state: default

That is always running in background as you can see from the result of

mido:/ #ps | grep finddevice

 

[bugmenot1]

Thank you for the info @bugmenot1, I know it's strange, I posted here to check if it happened to someone else, I still have no clue of what happened.
BTW I got your suggestion about disabling some of the system apps, and I noticed I can't disable finddevice:

mido:/ #pm disable com.xiaomi.finddevice
Package com.xiaomi.fiddevice new state: default

That is always running in background as you can see from the result of

mido:/ #ps | grep finddevice

I can't confirm as I never tried to disable the Xiaomi services.
But if you're unable to disable them, you could always try to remove them from the system. There's a script in the XDA forum that allows you to remove almost all the unnecessary stuffs from MIUI ROMs. You can also customize it to remove the ones you desire.
The link to thread~
https://forum.xda-developers.com/mi-5s/themes/mod-unbloatmi-bloatware-remover-t3556444/amp/

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