The new malware titled ANDROIDOS_NICKISPY.C can collect such information as GPS location, SMS messages, and call logs. Moreover, it is able to record phone conversations on infected phones. Remarkably, stolen information is being uploaded to some unnamed URL via port 2018. please log in to view this image Glad I have an ancient phone that takes calls,pics and sends texts none of this fancy piss
So mobile phones are under the same pressures that traditional PCs are under, in that you don't just install everything or anything as it could have viruses. The issue here is obviously that there is no anti-virus scan for Android. P.S. I don't use anti-virus for PC, because Windows 7 is locked down so much it's hard to get a virus that you haven't installed yourself. McAfee and Norton are worse than viruses anyway, they try to scare the ****e out of you every year to renew your subscription by putting huge alarming messages on your screen every 15 minutes, a behaviour which is worse than most viruses I've ever encountered.
I use avg anti virus with the special code ..it doesn't run out until 28 Feb 2018. I think i read somewhere avg have an anti virus out for phones too but i wont care not with my trusty samsung tocco lite
my phone is a couple of years old. It's a nokia something or other. I've been meaning to replace it for a while. No chance of it getting dodgy virus's, unless it wanders off on it's own to the nearest brothel.
That is utter bollocks,I have cleaned loads of Windows 7 machines with viruses,rogue anti viruses and other malware,they have no more problem bypassing the security on 7 than any other windows version.
I used to use AVG until I got a virus even though it was all switched on and up to date. I now use Avast.
Talking from personal experience, I have three Windows 7 machines and have never had a virus on any of them... because I use decent hard firewalls and don't install random bollocks off the net. The whole architecture of Windows Vista/7 has changed dramatically from Windows XP. With Windows 7 you need administrator access (which even an administrator account doesn't get by default without a user interaction) to change the likes of registry settings. It's the reason why there was such a difficult migration from XP to Vista, as a lot of bad programmers assumed certain administrator privileges in their code. Unlike Windows XP you don't just get infected by people randomly scanning IPs and port ranges, it's usually your fault if something has got in as you have probably let it in.
