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Tarik Tonkov Mobile technology specialist | |
Tarik Tonkov is a computer scientist and programmer turned tech journalist with a keen interest in the world of smartphones and tablets. He previously wrote for Android Life and was also a ghostwriter for several technology and automotive publications. He appreciates the reliability and beauty of smartphones, the symbiosis of characteristics and usability. In his free time, Tarik likes to travel by car and polish his programming skills to create small useful programs. |
MP704 | January 14, 2019 | |
I recently had malware make its way into my phone. It slowly began taking over bits and pieces of the phone. First couple months it was small oddities. By the end (now) - whoever was in control was turning camera and mic on and of at will. It got to the point where if they mew I put the phone in my pocket, the battery would heat up so bad and fast you would think ot was about to explode. It would change my network from t- mobile to google as it needed- it would reconfigure the usb options at will. It would run a pseudo home screen (which I figured out after paying close attention to the Google symbol- colors where slightly different/off and so was the size of the colors on the symbol. Anyway- The malware acquired Root of my phone. I knew nothing about computer/ smartphone programming, coding, security, or what Root was. Hell I could barely use my google cloud services right before this. But in the past 4 months I taught myself a lot- enough that I'm on XDA and GitHub regularly- enough to tell the tech from Lookout Security what he needed to look for because the malware hides in the system files and is not easily detected, if at all, by antivirus scans. Enough that im in terminal emulator trying different things to get this damn thing out of my phone. I dont back down amd hate quitting- this has become my obsession beating this thing. I tried 3 different antivirus companies: Lookout, MalwareBytes, and Kaspersky (which I kept)- none detected- none removed. After a positive hit on totalvirus and HybridAnalysis. I got frustrated - started teaching myself. I learned enough to piss the virus/hacker off! Lmao! So I tried to get into the SU files ...permission denied 7 out of 10 x's ....then I get into a file finally - dated 1969 which I find interesting.and its a log of what seems like either Qualcomm's ppl or maybe Lg's ppl when trying to update software ran into the same problem I was having with this Root in place that reading thru the log it looks like they removed the malware ( phone functioning too good to be true lately) - *** Is this something that happens often?? *** how do I know for sure if they removed the Root hold the malware had?? *** if I had rooted my phone prior to the invasion! Lol - would I have been better protected against the malware?? *** Should I Root the phone now? And if I do- if there is any chance that the malware (if still in phone) or Q's/ LG's ppl would have to surrender the SU status they hold on my phone to me (being that I would be rooting the phone after the facts??? Any info would be greatly appreciated! Any direction to point me in would be even more appreciated! Thank you | ||