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Are X rays bad for you? Your phone has the "answer"
Posted 442 days ago by Elad Shapira
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This week, the AVG Mobilation™ research team found a new instance of PUP (Potentially Unwanted Program) named ‘FakeLottery’ in the Android market. Fortunately, after our Security research team reported this to Google. They suspended the developer for violating the Android Market Developer Distribution Agreement.

 

Developer name in the market: “Asta E services”

Below you can see a picture taken from the Android Market with all the apps published by the developer:

 

 

Detailed analysis of the Xrap app application:

In the analysis we focused on the Xray app – the app promise the user to help him to xray using his mobile camera.

 

After installing it you get the following screen:

 

When you press it to continue (‘Start’ button) and get the so-called Xray functionality, you get to YouTube and a commercial is presented to you:

 

What you see here is a commercial – it says you were chosen from people living in the area and you can win an iPad, iPhone etc if you fill some form with questions – filling the form will cost the user money.

 

Here the user needs to specify if he/she a male/female:

 

After filling the form the user gets a message about the device he might be able to win (don’t count on it):

 

And how much money the user needs to pay if he wants to participate in the Trivia game:

 

The service costs continuous weekly payment for each question sent to the device (15 NIS each week, 5 NIS per question, 15 NIS initial registrations – depends on where the user lives).

 

As mentioned earlier, the developer’s apps have been removed from the Android Market.

 



 
  • huynh nam

    help me. I remove device out account AVG mobilation , not unlock phone, thanhk

  • http://www.facebook.com/daniel.duprie Daniel Ruben du Prie

    Your phone is probably soft-bricked. Reinstall the OS from scratch.

  • Mukesh Gupta

    i hav lost my phone today and the number is coming switched off how can i trace my mobile with AVG antivirus…. pls help…..

  • http://blogs.avg.com Charlie Sanchez

    Hi Mukesh,

    If you go to http://www.avgmobilation.com/

    You should be able to log in the top right hand of the page where it says “AntiTheft Login”

    I hope you get your phone back!!

    Charlie

  • GABRIEL ARAQUE

    mi galaxy s3 presenta una alerta de seguridad ,dice que se ejecuta de modo de alto privilegio , es decir que se ha roteado . me recomiendan que use solamente firmware original , me pueden ayudar con eso.

  • cyborgtronics

    Well, I said this version to update me on my S3 says: Oops! The communication timeout exceeded. This operation is pending and will be completed later. and remains in version 3.03 – 55050121 If I install version 2.12.3 or 3.0.1 I updated to version 60844078 smoothly. Any idea what happens?

  • satendra agarwal

    I have lost my phone today morning and the both duel sim number is coming switched off. how can i trace my mobile with AVG antivirus…. pls help…..

  • Katy Manriquez

    se me bloqueo el telefono y se me olvido la contraseña que hago?

  • Katy Manriquez

    ayudaaa

  • nikki sharma

    i will try but my phone not located this link ….
    plzs help me

  • http://blogs.avg.com Charlie Sanchez

    I’m sorry to hear you’ve lost your phone,visit http://www.avgmobilation.com/ and use the Anti-Theft Login to use the tracking features

  • http://blogs.avg.com Charlie Sanchez

    Please visit the AVG Forum and go to the Mobilation section. The staff there will help you recover your password.
    http://forums.avg.com/gb-en/avg-forums?sec=theme&act=show&id=215

  • http://blogs.avg.com Charlie Sanchez

    You should be able to trace your phone using the Anti-Theft Login on the AVG Mobilation page.
    http://www.avgmobilation.com

  • shazil ali

    This mathed is not working, it needs mobile network internet or wifi connection to locate, if no one use that so how can we locate our phone, its fail :(

  • shazil ali

    This mathed is not working, it needs mobile network internet or wifi connection to locate, if no one use that so how can we locate our phone, its fail :(

  • http://blogs.avg.com Charlie Sanchez

    I’m sorry that you’re still having trouble Mukesh.
    Try using the Mobilation section of our AVG Forum (www.forums.avg.com).

    There are Mobilation staff there that might be able to help you.

  • http://blogs.avg.com Charlie Sanchez

    I’m sorry that you’re still having trouble Mukesh.
    Try using the Mobilation section of our AVG Forum (www.forums.avg.com).

    There are Mobilation staff there that might be able to help you.

  • http://www.facebook.com/Angelluvlyi Diksha Soni

    my galaxy s3 avd scan deteched a virus in setting and it says
    “Unsecure privilege mode deteched. Your device is running in High privilege mode (i.e. it has been rooted) We recommend using only genuine firmware”
    CAn you explain me what this means? and what I have to do to move this treath from my phone please?


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