full-disclosure - Re: Android and malware

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Message-ID: <AANLkTimp4bSuEzEy8oqQQYLgL=bphJfbUETwVSSd_29W@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 19:53:36 -0800
From: coderman <coderman@...il.com>
To: Eyeballing Weev <eyeballing.weev@...il.com>
Cc: full-disclosure@...ts.grok.org.uk
Subject: Re: Android and malware

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Eyeballing Weev
<eyeballing.weev@...il.com> wrote:
> Hello
>
> My friend is a public official and he believes his Android (HTC Dash)
> was bugged/infected by someone through a text message attachment. Has
> anyone seen anything commercially available or available online to do this?

yup.


> I don't know anything about smartphones but was wondering if anyone has
> Android experience with something like this. Does the Android have
> startup functions like Windows's Startup folder where we can investigate?

just one of many avenues...


> The issues are a real bad echo, the phone acting really weird such as
> the battery life going bad and the phone lighting up on the table during
> it being idle.

hah, not good.  particularly if delineated by precision.

time to spend bucks on a specialist's time :)

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