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Android Platform Under Malware Attack

Posted on the 13 March 2013 by Janeandrew01

Android phones capture the larger percentage of smartphone sale in the market. This platform is supported by huge mobile manufacturing companies including Samsung, Sony and BlackBerry among others. Its growing popularity does not guarantee secured platform for its users. Android is an open source – users of OS phones can download apps from any source, making it less secured than Apple and BlackBerry. Therefore, there is always a threat of malware attack from different means including Android spyware and monitoring software.

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Working in Discreet Mode

The hacker does not need to be a tech guru to enter into your phone and leave the spyware, while you are unaware of its movements. The main source of malware transfer is internet itself. If a person wishes to install this app in the cell phone of another person, they can do that by using the internet browser in the cell phone. This app works in a stealth mode inside the mobile phone – keeping the cell phone user unaware of its existence. All you require is a secured online account where you can gather all the information and data from the infected phone. Cell phone spy software or cell phone monitoring software is malicious software, which only monitors and gathers data from the phone, but also records the calls and enables the hacker to listen to the calls. Remote monitoring allows you to listen in to the surroundings of the person. You can also track the cell phone user through its GPS location – location details are updated on the online account of the one who is spying after every fifteen minute intervals. These locations can also be seen on Google Maps.

The Evil Eye

Through this app you can keep an eye on your target’s online activities and gather information from their data. This does not stop here. This app will allow you to secretly view the pictures and SMS text messages that have been stored in the cell phone of the person in which the app has been downloaded for monitoring purposes. Every message sent or received is secretly recorded with date and time. Similarly call log history is also recorded, with the timings and duration of the calls.

View on the other side

Not everything is as dark and gloomy as it sounds. This app is useful in a way that it helps people to monitor person of interest – parents, employers and even deranged spouse make full use of this app. For parents it can prove to be third eye of god Shiva – help them to keep track of their children’s activities even in their absence. Parents can know of their teen’s activities and any harmful habits that they might have picked under peer pressure or for being cool. Employee monitoring is also another useful feature of Android spy. This is helpful when the company provides cell phones to its workers. Employers can install this app in the cell phone of the employees and then they can make sure that the workers are not sending text messages or making calls that might in some way or the other are in violation of the rules and laws of the company. Also, bosses can keep record of the activities of their workers while they are at work.


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