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good reliable Anti virus? apps?

I just notice my x10 got a virus or a trojan. Anyone know any good real anti-virus program for mobile yet? I have no experiences in this as well.
I suspect it was from going "online" using opera mini.
Because my gmail account was taken over at the time i surfed online using opera (on x10) and also enable 3 android apps CEDIME, cantonese keyboard and Semji.
Since i haven't typed any password, so i don't suspect it to be keylogging. But i suspect something have install something on my moblie and use it to spam mails to my contact because gmail is perma log on in on my x10.

LookOut is what i'm using in my X10

Mano1982 said:
LookOut is what i'm using in my X10
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Using the Same Here

wrongfeifong said:
I just notice my x10 got a virus or a trojan. Anyone know any good real anti-virus program for mobile yet? I have no experiences in this as well.
I suspect it was from going "online" using opera mini.
Because my gmail account was taken over at the time i surfed online using opera (on x10) and also enable 3 android apps CEDIME, cantonese keyboard and Semji.
Since i haven't typed any password, so i don't suspect it to be keylogging. But i suspect something have install something on my moblie and use it to spam mails to my contact because gmail is perma log on in on my x10.
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Install LookOut. It works on my X10. i.e. it found strange actions sometimes.

funny thing is i heard linux is impossible to get a virus.
Which is what android run under. need someone to confirm. I haven't install yet. I want to ask more people before hand, becfause from experiences some an-ti virus PC ver. run weird actions to prove itself it does stuff.

Anti-Virus is not need on android, unless you install apps that are not from the market, and give them permission to install on your phone. You should be aware of what you are installing and where it's coming from first anyway.
I don't think there are any known viruses for android.... yet...

[APP] F-Secure anti theft for free

hi,
just found this:
http://www.f-secure.com/en_EMEA/products/mobile/anti-theft-for-mobile/index_main3.html
tried to install it on my n1 but as soon as it tries to update i get an FC
anyone can recommend an other free anti-theft app?

mobile defense. beta at the moment but works really well.

thx, but closed-beta what i see? (like swype.. always chasing for the latest version lol)

No mobile defense is not in closed beta... You can find it in the market and it works like a charm

Re: f-secure anti theft for free
Very strange, can't find it on the market and on their website it says it is closed beta. Will try with another build prop file...
https://www.mobiledefense.com/download

watercool said:
Very strange, can't find it on the market and on their website it says it is closed beta. Will try with another build prop file...
https://www.mobiledefense.com/download
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They just closed the Beta testing to limit the userbase as they are testing a new release with updated abilities (like remote wipe, and a proper /system installation method). You can install it all you want but can not register a new account right now.

Re: f-secure anti theft for free
Still can't find it, is it us only? And without an account out seems to be useless anyway

watercool said:
Still can't find it, is it us only?
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The original link works again (see above).

It is us only for now... It sends texts to your phone to activate and start commands such as gps tracking. Their website said they plan in the future to support other areas but no timeframe is given.
I had an account when i lived in the us, but i live in the uk now and it does not work.

watercool said:
hi,
just found this:
http://www.f-secure.com/en_EMEA/products/mobile/anti-theft-for-mobile/index_main3.html
tried to install it on my n1 but as soon as it tries to update i get an FC
anyone can recommend an other free anti-theft app?
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Have you tried it again - just installed it with no problems at all on a Galaxy S... specs below.
Kind regards,
ww

webwude said:
Have you tried it again - just installed it with no problems at all on a Galaxy S...
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I tried today on my N1. Always the same FC trying to update at first start

cips_it said:
I tried today on my N1. Always the same FC trying to update at first start
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Same here. It must be incompatible with gingerbread.

Try Prey (preyproject.com). Doesn't have remote wipe but its free, open source, and works on your laptop too.

12346 Netbus Backdoor trojan showing up on my girlfriends phone.

So I did a search and couldn't really find any info on what this is. today I was scanning everything attached to my network with Fing and her phone came up with a TCP 12346 netbus backdoor trojan. Not sure where to go from here to find and remove it. my guess is she got it from using mp3 music downloader. any help is much appreciated.

Anyone????

What did you use to scan it with?
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Turd Furguson said:
What did you use to scan it with?
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look out security

Android NetBus backdoor trojan
Bump. I have seen this "12346 NetBus backdoor trojan" during a fing (overlooksoft) service scan. What does xda have to say about this?
Wikipedia gives a interesting article about theNetBus trojan horse.
The person that owns the phone claims that they clicked on a link in an email and the phone froze.
The only solution I have dug up is a factory reset. I did, ran another scan and it didnt change.
Ill be looking for feedback!

same 12346 netbus back Door trojan
Fing app tells me that my Phone has 12346 port open. Any advice? Thanks

For anyone still wondering
I also used Fing and found the same open port and it seems If you use the Rhapsody service then that is your answer if you dont then go fish, best of luck, hope this helps . . . . at least to anyone that uses Rhapsody

I also have Rhapsody/Napster and I also did a scan with the Fing app, and got the same Netbus backdoor trojan in the running services when scanning with Fing. This is totally a guess but if its Napster then it would make sense that the app keeps a port open so it can block the service if your subscription is canceled or suspended. My experience is that if you force Napster into offline mode before its cancelled or suspended it wont block the service because its not actively searching for the network. I have done this with Napster a few times.

Install TWRP and reformat the drive... then re-flash the stock firmware.

Android Rom and Banking Fraud?

Hello to all,
first of all forgive me if i am in the wrong forum. Second I am not an authority with ROMs and developing. I can flash a new ROM and follow guidance easily but that's it. Up to that.
I will tell you my scary experience with a specific rom which i installed a couple of days ago on my S3. First off all this post is not suppose to be rude to anyone or anything. I am telling you my story and I would appreciate your input as you are the experts.
3 days ago I installed the MIUI (http://miuiandroid.com/community) ROM on my S3.
As soon as I turned the phone on to run it for the first time I went to the typical set ups but then I noticed something.
On he top right corner of the status bar the a green phone icon appeared meaning that the phone was automatically set on "Call-diverting" .I dint pay any attention for about 30 mins as I was setting up the phone.
When I decided to see what the icon does to my sock and horror I realised that my phone was pre setted to call diverting automatically to a specific mobile number in the UK.
I quickly disabled the call diverting and dint think anything more. All of that happened around 12:30 in the afternoon (pay real attention to the times here).
about 10 minutes later I was at the office. around 2 hours after that I got a text message from my Bank to call them about a suspicious money transfer.
I called the bank and the told me that a few minutes earlier someone attempted to transfer 2000 pounds from my account. Of course my on-line banking was frozen and I was lucky not to loose the money.
Now, during these two hours my phone never rang just the text message from my bank. The bank security employee told me that it looked suspicious to them because whoever was trying to transfer the money asked for the 4 digit number via the automated bank security system to be diverted to another mobile number. The bank advised me to call my mobile carrier as I did.
The mobile carrier , when i talked to him, confirmed that someone called them and accessed my account by giving them all the right info, and requested that every time my phone was out of coverage all calls to be directed to another mobile!
have you guess what was the other mobile?? It was exactly the same mobile number as the pre-set on the ROM which I had installed 3 hours earlier!
And my bank confirmed that the same mobile was used in order to get the 4 digit pin.
I was shocked to say the least!!
When after a few minutes I managed to talk to my girlfriend , she told me that she was calling me earlier for about an hour. These phone calls never made it to my phone. As the phone was pre-setted to call diverting it was ringing to the diverted phone and not mine.
It is obvious that as I do mobile on-line banking and I access my accounts from my mobile (as many do), somehow they managed to get all the information about me and I am suspecting dodgy applications on my phone. I hope I am wrong but this experience has really shocked me.
I love android phones I love what you developers do but I am after you opinion in this one.
I am not here to offend any developers but to have a genuine answer and a sensible discussion about this issue. I am not a kid I am professional and this experience has really made me think twice about smart phones.

nice.! install only trusted ROMs with a lot of feed back
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jowett69 said:
nice.! install only trusted ROMs with a lot of feed back
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the miui-rom made by miuiandroid.com is a "trusted rom with a lot of feedback" and has a long history and a community with over 50.000 members.
mtdgr said:
I am suspecting dodgy applications on my phone.
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i think you're right, it wasn't the rom but some malware-/spyware-app.
assuming your phone was rooted, it would be easy for an app to do all kind of bad stuff once it got root-privileges, eg hiding on your sdcard and spying your data and after that establishing the call-divert to catch the 4digit-pin and the rest would be history.
only thing you could do is think what questionable apps with root privileges you installed in the last days before this happened, try to get a copy of it and have a closer look on it, maybe installing it without a simcard inserted or with a simcard without charge on it, to see what happens...
a big piece of luck would be some kind of log from about 1230h to see what established the call-divert, but if i would do such app i would ensure to delete all logs with traces afterwards, but who knows?
though, all of that are just the ideas that came to my mind as i read your post...
good luck for the investigation, would be interesting to know if you could get any information about what happened, so keep us updated, ok?
greetz,
sUsH

It would be difficult for me to know which custom ROM is safe and which one is not! I am not an expert you see. And the same goes with apps. I don't think anyone can state with certainty that any are safe.
It is just shocking to know how easy it is for your details to "escape" !
I will keep you informed about how this goes.
jowett69 If you can tell me how to get that log you are talking about, that would be great.
In the meantime can anyone advise on a descent mobile data protection application? something which will prevent any sensitive data from leaking from my phone? Payware or freeware I don't mind.

some ideas
mtdgr said:
It would be difficult for me to know which custom ROM is safe and which one is not! I am not an expert you see. And the same goes with apps. I don't think anyone can state with certainty that any are safe.
It is just shocking to know how easy it is for your details to "escape" !
I will keep you informed about how this goes.
jowett69 If you can tell me how to get that log you are talking about, that would be great.
In the meantime can anyone advise on a descent mobile data protection application? something which will prevent any sensitive data from leaking from my phone? Payware or freeware I don't mind.
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A start might be to check the Superuser app and click on Log and see what apps received su permissions.
Also, from a cmd prompt you can enumerate all the running processes by running:
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adb shell "busybox ps -A > /mnt/sdcard/process.log"
adb pull /mnt/sdcard/process.log
View process.log for anything suspicious, or post it up and I'll have a look.
fluxist

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A start might be to check the Superuser app and click on Log and see what apps received su permissions.
Also, from a cmd prompt you can enumerate all the running processes by running:
Code:
adb shell "busybox ps -A > /mnt/sdcard/process.log"
adb pull /mnt/sdcard/process.log
View process.log for anything suspicious, or post it up and I'll have a look.
fluxist
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I don't think I could do that my friend. As soon as I suspected that something with that ROM was wrong I performed a full wipe and installed omega 9.1 rom.
My question is this. By performing a full wipe should really erase any malware from the previous installation right? Can anyone advise on a descent antivirus/firewall application which will help me (and others like me) monitor and "block" unusual application behavior?

oh and one more question for my information...sensitive personal data can only be leaked when the device is rooted ? if it is not rooted am I safe?

mtdgr said:
I don't think I could do that my friend. As soon as I suspected that something with that ROM was wrong I performed a full wipe and installed omega 9.1 rom.
My question is this. By performing a full wipe should really erase any malware from the previous installation right? Can anyone advise on a descent antivirus/firewall application which will help me (and others like me) monitor and "block" unusual application behavior?
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did you wipe your internal and external sdcards too? how did you wipe? cause it depends where the malware was hiding, if it is erased now or not.
a simple, yet powerful firewall is droidwall. you can find it in the market. put it in whitelist-mode and allow only the stuff you know. but droidwall controlls "only" internet-connections (wifi and 3g or such). for full controll over every permission of every app and connection of your phone you sohuld use pdroid, but i don't know if that's really necessary, though i understand your fear. but if someone really wants to harm you and has some knowledge, there are always ways, i think...
mtdgr said:
oh and one more question for my information...sensitive personal data can only be leaked when the device is rooted ? if it is not rooted am I safe?
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not really, think of those apps you can use to root your device. think a bit further and one could make an app that roots your device and afterwards does the stuff it wants. but seriously, though it is possible, who would do that to you? that's what you should think about...
greetz,
sUsH
ps: cause you did a wipe, there's no possibilty of going through some logs, sry. (though this too depends on the way you wiped and what exactly you wiped...)

I did a full wipe to install the new rom...wipe cache data ...devlink and one more but cant remember it
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mtdgr said:
I did a full wipe to install the new rom...wipe cache data ...devlink and one more but cant remember it
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda app-developers app
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sry, then your try to get rid of the problem also got rid of possible evidence. just try to forget it and be more careful in future with suspicious apps from questionable sources and similar.
greetz,
sUsH

antivirus software for the S8?

Evening all,
Just a quick question, do any of you use anti virus software for your phones? If so which one?
Running

Your finger works as a great anti virus, here's how to use it, when you download that modded candycrush.apk file from cheatersRus.com and you're asked if you want to install this apk file, select NO. There no virus, 100% guaranteed to work.

peachpuff said:
Your finger works as a great anti virus, here's how to use it, when you download that modded candycrush.apk file from cheatersRus.com and you're asked if you want to install this apk file, select NO. There no virus, 100% guaranteed to work.
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:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:
So true...
Antivirus apps on a phone are so unnecessary and ends up hurting your experience with your device instead of improving your experience.
Just a bit of common sense goes a LONG way folks...

I don't. I used to run 360 for ram clears and storage cleans, specifically the little widget was nice, antivirus was there but meh. Now that you can use stock ram/storage cleaner + it has a widget. So goodbye 360 for me.
That said, I don't really download any apks unless they are listed here on xda.

peachpuff said:
Your finger works as a great anti virus, here's how to use it, when you download that modded candycrush.apk file from cheatersRus.com and you're asked if you want to install this apk file, select NO. There no virus, 100% guaranteed to work.
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Amen, brother, amen. I get so many friends of mine asking me "why is my phone so slow" and I look at it and they've got 9billion games and 4000 tabs open and facebook messenger (anyone running facebook deserves what they get, sorry, i consider facebook stupid to begin with but honestly, no, YOU DON'T HAVE TO OVERSHARE THAT YOU WENT POOP FIVE MINUTES AGO And, NO, your baby IS really ugly, stop posting so many damn pictures of it). I just happily go ahead and delete about 80-90% of the crap they put on their devices and voila, they're "amazed" that it's "faster" no, it's just not as bloated.

peachpuff said:
Your finger works as a great anti virus, here's how to use it, when you download that modded candycrush.apk file from cheatersRus.com and you're asked if you want to install this apk file, select NO. There no virus, 100% guaranteed to work.
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Ok ?
I don't download anything unless it's in the play store or here.
I only asked as I was fiddling with the settings on my phone and one of the options for anti virus.
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Currently, I'm using Bitdefender and Disconnect Pro.

Disconnect Pro should suffice just fine. Not really an antivirus, but it will prevent ads from popping up (probably the best ad block I can think of without root).

Go to device maintenance, security, and accept the notification that appears.
Intel Security will now actively secure your device. (No need for any AV from the playstore.)
Now, you can use AdHell or DisconnectPro to enable system-wide ad-blocking using the Knox firewall without root. This should avoid most crapware.
Do not download/install anything that prompts you to enable installation from Unknown Sources.
You're now secure.

Skander1998 said:
Go to device maintenance, security, and accept the notification that appears.
Intel Security will now actively secure your device. (No need for any AV from the playstore.)
Now, you can use AdHell or DisconnectPro to enable system-wide ad-blocking using the Knox firewall without root. This should avoid most crapware.
Do not download/install anything that prompts you to enable installation from Unknown Sources.
You're now secure.
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Once Intel Security is enabled, is there any way to disable it again?
Did not find an option for that..
Thanks & best regards!
Michael

peachpuff said:
Your finger works as a great anti virus, here's how to use it, when you download that modded candycrush.apk file from cheatersRus.com and you're asked if you want to install this apk file, select NO. There no virus, 100% guaranteed to work.
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If you didn't know some malware/viruses are on play store that isn't detected by Google. Can't remember if it was recently but 2 million handsets where infected because of apps on play store especially the dodgy ones

pheeos said:
Once Intel Security is enabled, is there any way to disable it again?
Did not find an option for that..
Thanks & best regards!
Michael
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I did not try this, but this may work.
Go to settings -> apps -> click the 3 dot menu and click show system apps -> click Device Maintenance.
Clear the data of the device maintenance app.

underdog_656 said:
If you didn't know some malware/viruses are on play store that isn't detected by Google. Can't remember if it was recently but 2 million handsets where infected because of apps on play store especially the dodgy ones
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And since google didn't catch it what makes you think some av software will?

underdog_656 said:
If you didn't know some malware/viruses are on play store that isn't detected by Google. Can't remember if it was recently but 2 million handsets where infected because of apps on play store especially the dodgy ones
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I'm REALLY confused, you even write, "especially the dodgy ones" yet, WHY would you download the "dodgy" ones? WHY?
It's sort of like, "Don't stick your hand in the woodchipper" You come running a half-hour later and have no hand screaming, "I stuck my hand in the wood chipper". Well, yeah.

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And since google didn't catch it what makes you think some av software will?
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It's better than nothing. There might be a possibility for the anti virus.
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sanjsrik said:
I'm REALLY confused, you even write, "especially the dodgy ones" yet, WHY would you download the "dodgy" ones? WHY?
It's sort of like, "Don't stick your hand in the woodchipper" You come running a half-hour later and have no hand screaming, "I stuck my hand in the wood chipper". Well, yeah.
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Many people download them if you didn't know. E.g game guides.... that's fine that you don't download these but there are people who do.

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It's better than nothing. There might be a possibility for the anti virus.
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Many people download them if you didn't know. E.g game guides.... that's fine that you don't download these but there are people who do.
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Honestly, if they're downloading from sketchy sites, they deserve what they get. No one should complain if they KNOW better and do worse.

sanjsrik said:
Honestly, if they're downloading from sketchy sites, they deserve what they get. No one should complain if they KNOW better and do worse.
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M8 we are talking about play store not websites. What's wrong with you people, good for you that you know what sketchy websites are but other people don't e.g older people. Then what's the point of having a antivirus on computer if only you would visit Facebook and not any sketchy websites. So yeah hopefully this shows how stup** ur comment is. I agree with you people should be able you know and website but as I said before they don't...

underdog_656 said:
M8 we are talking about play store not websites. What's wrong with you people, good for you that you know what sketchy websites are but other people don't e.g older people. Then what's the point of having a antivirus on computer if only you would visit Facebook and not any sketchy websites. So yeah hopefully this shows how stup** ur comment is. I agree with you people should be able you know and website but as I said before they don't...
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Sorry, when you start name-calling, the discussion ends.

sanjsrik said:
Sorry, when you start name-calling, the discussion ends.
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I didn't call you nothing I said ur comment is....
Bruhhhh

Anti virus apps on mobile systems are useless and pointless. They will never detecty anything on android as the malware on android is not made like PC software nor does it act like it.
The biggest cause for slow devices I find are people being lazy and having tons of folders on their home screen with tons of apps in them. Doing this will slow your system down. Also filling more then 50% device storage will also slow the device down.