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Android Trojan records phone calls
- eevilspock 15y agoI remember Microsoft's arguments for adding unfettered VB support from within Word, Excel and even Outlook email, and web pages in IE that could also access anything on your system (including your entire address book): flexibility and freedom for the programmer to do anything.
- yanw 15y agoIt's not a Trojan if you have to install it, specially as one has to enable side-loading to install it. FUD.
- eevilspock 15y agoNo, a Trojan is something you are tricked into installing that opens the door of your computer to the attacker, much as the Greeks used the Trojan Horse to trick the Trojans.
- yanw 15y agoNot much of a trick if you had to allow alternative markets and still get presented with its permissions before installing it.
- eevilspock 15y agoFirst you get the definition of "Trojan" wrong, and now you make a new, extremely naive claim. Based on your logic, for example, phishing would never work.
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- yanw 15y agoPhishing depends on user gullibility that is why everyone is vulnerable to phishing. Here you can't even reach the gullible user because there is the extra step of enabling side-loading, anyone who is going to victimized by this 'Trojan' has to do so knowingly and voluntarily.
- Dentonez 15y agoDeveloper: News Corp... ;)
- nickolai 15y ago> users can protect themselves by installing antivirus software McAfee Premium plus. Coming soon to your Microwave. This really saddens me. No matter how much user education has already been done, people still get tricked into installing this crap.