Virus Alert !!

poddster — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 15:40:09 GMT

If you have an Android smart phone or an android tablet and you have or are going to attempt to increase its memory and functionality by getting superuser privileges by a process known as 'rooting' (getting access to the root directories where the system files reside).

Proceed with extreme caution, there are some bits of software on the net that allow that to be done, but now a lot of those type of programs have been infected with a virus that is almost invisible and almost impossible to detect and remove.

The Trojan.AndroidOS.Generic.A and all its variants infect phones and tablets running the Android operating system.

It sends itself via SMS to random users and infects the recipient which in turn replicates the virus and forwards it on to random users in the phone's address book.

It also infects the host computer that was used in the "rooting" process.

The first thing that it does is disables any anti virus you have installed and continues to root, in the true sense of the word, computer.

It severally disables anything that can be used in its detection and in most cases the system has to be reloaded afresh.

I have included the result of a scan performed on a drive that was infected, scans are no able to be performed in a live operating environment.

That system had to be rebuilt as the infection was so deep that even if you got portion of it it replicated.

Scan Results

Run By: User

Memory Processes Scanned: 1

Files Scanned: 591956

Registry Keys Scanned: 52274

Cookies Scanned: 0

Threat(s) Found: 1

Threat Details

Risk Name: Trojan.AndroidOS.Generic.A

Category: Trojan

Threat Level: High

Number of Risk Traces: 5

Locations

C:\Users\i7\Desktop\Framaroot-1.9.3.zip|classes.dex
C:\Users\i7\Desktop\phone root\classes.dex
C:\Users\i7\Desktop\root\spectrum_root_windows\Superuser.apk|classes.dex
C:\Users\i7\Desktop\root 2\spectrum_root_windows\Superuser.apk|classes.dex
C:\Users\i7\Desktop\spectrum_root_windows.zip|spectrum_root_windows\Superuser.apk|classes.dex

Re: Virus Alert !!

ladydeburg — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 23:53:20 GMT

Thanks for that. 🙂

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