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#16 · **sword777** lop guest User ID: 88347 05-05-2012 09:56 PM

Disturbed Wrote:

Root your droid, intall avast and activate firewall..

You can select per app if and how aps are allowed to access the net.

I do play arond wit apps outside the play store, i always restrict all access to these apps to the net..

Details on rooting and the firewall?

**Disturbed** · (This post was last modified: 05-05-2012 10:15 PM by Disturbed.)

Lurky Lew Wrote:

Disturbed Wrote:
Root your droid, intall avast and activate firewall..

You can select per app if and how aps are allowed to access the net.

I do play arond wit apps outside the play store, i always restrict all access to these apps to the net..

Details on rooting and the firewall?

Rooting is device pecific, and is not recommended. It breaks warranty in most countries.

You have to google and read a lot before doing it. If you really screwmup, you can brick your phone or tablet.

Firewall works with IPtables, but avasst takes care of that all

#18 · **LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 94780 05-05-2012 10:14 PM

spɹɐʍoɔ snoɯʎuouɐ Wrote:

wait for an android update that fixes this

Wait for an update to the original spyware to halt the new spyware? Jeez .... a submarine with screen doors would work better.

#19 · **LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 94780 05-05-2012 10:37 PM

LoP Guest Wrote:

I owned my Droid X for 18 months. It did too many things all by itself, like take pictures. I kept it in a drawer and I could hear it taking pictures!

I finally got rid of it last week and replaced it with a simple flip-phone with no network access. I don't miss the Droid one bit.

Roger that.

I took a brick to my Android when the phone announced it had been synced. I had syncing turned off since the day I bought it.

#20 · **NightHelix** lop guest User ID: 79549 05-05-2012 10:41 PM

what is the intranet?

i mean, is it a certain skeletal part of the internet?

**CourtDude** · (This post was last modified: 05-06-2012 12:22 AM by CourtDude.)

MAD HATTER Wrote:

what is the intranet?

i mean, is it a certain skeletal part of the internet?

The Intranet is that part of the Internet that is only accessible from within a business or government network.

For me, the Intranet is the protected networks of the Judicary and the connections to hundreds upon hundred of cities, counties, municipalities and agencies our network is connected to or is the ISP for.

I can look up your criminal record there, issue you a marriage license, even put a violation on your driver's license--seriously. Not that I ever would!!

Such networks are very protected and gaining control of a careless user's Android phone that has a VPN connection or even a WiFi connection when you are on-site to a business or governemental Intranet could give the person that has gotten control of the Android or iPhone with such access literally the keys to the kingdom, or full and unresticted access to those networks and their resources.

**spɹɐʍoɔ snoɯʎuouɐ**

**Kill the Matrix**

Anyone else thing that most of this shit is coming out of governments? If small time hackers were doing it, they would be rounded up. Our government seems to just ignore this shit, like the guy who wrote the Melissa virus got 90 days in jail. Big whoop. It likely costs hundreds of millions in lost productivity alone.

**CourtDude** · (This post was last modified: 05-06-2012 01:24 AM by CourtDude.)

Kill the Matrix Wrote:

Anyone else thing that most of this shit is coming out of governments? If small time hackers were doing it, they would be rounded up. Our government seems to just ignore this shit, like the guy who wrote the Melissa virus got 90 days in jail. Big whoop. It likely costs hundreds of millions in lost productivity alone.

I do because it provides plausible deniablity--it is you that accessed the network with your phone; the hacker or whomever is hiding somewhere on the Internet sifting through your Intranet using your phone as the router and gateway to your network all without your knowledge and appearing as you to your network.

Your personal contacts and address list are of no interest to these people; what is on your connected business or agency network is what interests them.

**IceColdScotch**

Lurky Lew Wrote:

Disturbed Wrote:
Root your droid, intall avast and activate firewall..

You can select per app if and how aps are allowed to access the net.

I do play arond wit apps outside the play store, i always restrict all access to these apps to the net..

Details on rooting and the firewall?

This is a good start to explain the root process and provide resources for most popular Android phones:

http://lifehacker.com/5789397/the-always...socialflow

**Dauntless**

Thanks for the info! I never use any app that's not from the play store might have to get a firewall for it now
Hugs

#27 · **LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 94825 05-06-2012 03:49 AM

LoP Guest Wrote:

I owned my Droid X for 18 months. It did too many things all by itself, like take pictures. I kept it in a drawer and I could hear it taking pictures!

I finally got rid of it last week and replaced it with a simple flip-phone with no network access. I don't miss the Droid one bit.

I bet it was your undies draw too chuckle

**Wolf Pup**

LoP Guest Wrote:

I owned my Droid X for 18 months. It did too many things all by itself, like take pictures. I kept it in a drawer and I could hear it taking pictures!

I finally got rid of it last week and replaced it with a simple flip-phone with no network access. I don't miss the Droid one bit.

UMMM..your phone was haunted!!

**CourtDude**

Wolf Pup Wrote:

LoP Guest Wrote:
I owned my Droid X for 18 months. It did too many things all by itself, like take pictures. I kept it in a drawer and I could hear it taking pictures!

I finally got rid of it last week and replaced it with a simple flip-phone with no network access. I don't miss the Droid one bit.

UMMM..your phone was haunted!!

Betcha it was the undies! chuckle

**Zero Point**

spɹɐʍoɔ snoɯʎuouɐ Wrote:

Criminals have hacked web sites to serve drive-by malware to Android users; the malware poses as a system update that a user is tricked into installing. The malware, dubbed NotCompatible by Lookout Security and initially reported by Reddit user Georgiabiker, is hosted in a iframe at the bottom of a manipulated web page. When a user arrives on the page, a file by the name of "Update.apk" begins downloading immediately.

But it is only offered for installation, as "com.Security.Update", if the user has enabled the "Unknown Sources" setting in the system preferences. If that is not enabled, the installation will be blocked. The malware authors have not exploited any vulnerabilities in Android to install the software and are relying on social engineering and a preference that is often set on Android devices when people want to install software that is not from the official Android Market.

Drive-by downloads such as this are common for Windows PCs, but the sites serving up NotCompatible are being selective; when a user visits one of the sites that is serving up the malware, androidonlinefix.info, the browser's User-agent string is checked and the malware only sent if it contains the word Android.

The malware itself appears to be a simple TCP relay/proxy which could be used to access private networks; it appears to call out to command and control servers at, among others, notcompatibleapp.eu and could allow the operators of the server to route connections from outside a firewall to within a private network belonging to an individual, company or government. The simplest protection against NotCompatible is to only set the "Unknown Sources" system preference when installing software from a trusted source, and to unset it immediately afterwards.

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/A...um=twitter

Excellent advice. I honestly don't know if I've been that dumb.