{"id":41,"date":"2013-06-17T16:11:23","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T23:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karlstechnology.com\/blog\/?p=41"},"modified":"2019-05-08T08:59:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T15:59:41","slug":"virus-alert-android-users-beware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karlstechnology.com\/blog\/virus-alert-android-users-beware\/","title":{"rendered":"Virus Alert: Android Users Beware!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Android users BEWARE: New \u2018multi-function\u2019 Trojan targeting Android mobile devices. Here\u2019s a quick breakdown of the exploitative malware:<br \/>\n\u2022 Primarily an SMS Trojan surreptitiously sending short<br \/>\nmessages to premium numbers<br \/>\n\u2022 Able to&nbsp;download and install additional malicious modules and<br \/>\nto infect other devices via Bluetooth connection<br \/>\n\u2022 Keeps most of its code encrypted, thereby complicating<br \/>\nanalysis of the code<br \/>\n\u2022 \u201cEvades detection and barricades itself inside\u201d and ultimately<br \/>\nblocks removal attempts<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Ftinyurl.com%2Fmk4qcvd&amp;h=9AQHPCZpR&amp;s=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/mk4qcvd<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Android users BEWARE: New \u2018multi-function\u2019 Trojan targeting Android mobile devices. Here\u2019s a quick breakdown of the exploitative malware: \u2022 Primarily an SMS Trojan surreptitiously sending short messages to premium numbers \u2022 Able to&nbsp;download and install additional malicious modules and to infect other devices via Bluetooth connection \u2022 Keeps most of its code encrypted, thereby complicating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computerrepair","tag-virus"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Virus Alert: Android Users Beware! - Computer Repair Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"New Android virus: Here\u2019s a quick breakdown of the exploitative malware!\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.karlstechnology.com\/blog\/virus-alert-android-users-beware\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Virus Alert: Android Users Beware! 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