Malware on My Android Phone

Re:Malware on My Android Phone by growt on Monday January 11, 2021 @05:17AM (#25726957)

That would be reasonable if the phone owner was likely the victim of some targeted attack (beeing politician or something similar). But if it's just regular malware that was installed with a drive by download, I would trust the android security model that much.

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Re:Malware on My Android Phone by prox on Monday January 11, 2021 @12:53PM (#25732787)

I wouldn’t. Some malware can hide a lot deeper than a factory reset can erase.

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Re:Malware on My Android Phone by fomine3 on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @09:42PM (#25757337)

Such behavior needs privilege escalation thanks to sandbox. I don't believe crap app can do privilege escalation for constantly updated phone.

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