Has anyone received an update prompt for their S10+ with a build # G975USQU3DTEB? I know Google already forced the Covid crap on us in Google settings. I'm curious what the "New and / or enhanced features" are in this update since they never detail them. I'm not in favor of Google and their sneakiness when it comes to this Covid / contact tracing bulls**t.
Hopefully the "new" features are less battery drain and hibernated apps with Greenify stay hibernated which were problems introduced in the April security patch.
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Malicious code was found in a patch disguised as an official Google update designed to remove malware from Android-powered smartphones, according to security firm Symantec.
The impostor Android smartphone security patch was discovered at third-party Chinese marketplace and is called "Android Market Security Tool," the same title Google gave its authentic over-the-air update.
Symantec's find is the latest development in the wake of a hack on about 50 Android apps at the Android Market that affected approximately 260,000 downloads.
The outbreak of the DroidDream malicious code prompted Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) to take measures to shore up smartphone security for the family of Android handsets and to issue an over-the-air update to remove the malware from users' handsets.
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Found at internetnews.com/mobility/article.php/3927771
Probably won't affect many people here since it's in a third-party Chinese marketplace but I figured it was still worth posting.
From what I've heard the security tool is an OTA and you get notification by email. I'm not sure why anyone would download the trojan.
What do you guys think of this brand new bug? Peronsally as big as Google is they should have released patches about these bugs a long time ago...they have the money and the time to do that. Getting a newer version of android won't solve anything until bugs are fully squashed in the ecosystem in my opinion. To be honest it is also the manufactures fault for tweaking and putting different UI's in their phone's. If all androids ran stock linux android the world would be a better place!!!
http://fortune.com/2015/07/28/stagefright-google-android-security/
https://plus.google.com/+CyanogenMod/posts/7iuX21Tz7n8
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Cm12, 12.1 are already patched in the commits and cm 11 will be patched soon so.. If anyone is really worried about it go on an updated cm/aosp rom with the current to date commits
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LG promised yesterday to start sending monthly OTA security updates to in this regard.
In th mean time I advise you to do the following in order to minimise the risk of your LG G3 device being exploited by the Stagefright bug:
Open Messaging > Settings > Multimedia messages > uncheck the "Auto-retrieve" option.
This way it will not automatically open received links.
nerdo said:
LG promised yesterday to start sending monthly OTA security updates to in this regard.
In th mean time I advise you to do the following in order to minimise the risk of your LG G3 device being exploited by the Stagefright bug:
Open Messaging > Settings > Multimedia messages > uncheck the "Auto-retrieve" option.
This way it will not automatically open received links.
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Any link about this???cause LG isnt very good about updates..
Here you go:
“LG will be providing security updates on a monthly basis which carriers will then be able to make available to customers immediately. We believe these important steps will demonstrate to LG customers that security is our highest priority,” an LG representative told WIRED today in an email.
http://www.engadget.com/2015/08/07/lg-stagefright-monthly-security-updates/
I guess only time will tell!
35b hopefully contains a stagefright fix.
I purchased an app to track my sons usage and location (he's 11). It has a cool geo fencing option on it as
Do you know how to disable the security app. The developer emailed back saying i need to take it into a Samsung store to have them disable it. Which is over an hour drive away, so I thought I would ask here.
Thank you!
Your poor son lol. And what do you mean "security" app?
Security app on phone which provides protection. Comes baked into Android. I think it may be the smart manager device security rebranded from Android 6.0 but it's no longer visible in 7.0 in the applications manager. It blocks some 3rd party apps sideloaded from running if it decides it is non trustworthy or acting like a virus.
I recently discovered the joys of package disabling, using this XDA article as a guide and it has been 99% amazing. My battery life went up significantly and the bixby button is disabled without having to use some third party app.
However, the 1% that isn't amazing is the fact that google play seems to no longer be able to automatically update my apps. I can go in and manually update them, and it still shows a big list of which apps are available to update, and auto update is still turned on... but I suspect something I disabled may be not allowing google play to actually run the updates. Any thoughts?
I was reading another thread about which things people have disabled, and someone mentioned the settings menu loads slower... another person knew right away that it was two services that you had to re-enable, so I figured maybe someone just kinda knew what to do without having to go through each service/package and guess...
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I recently discovered the joys of package disabling, using this XDA article as a guide and it has been 99% amazing. My battery life went up significantly and the bixby button is disabled without having to use some third party app.
However, the 1% that isn't amazing is the fact that google play seems to no longer be able to automatically update my apps. I can go in and manually update them, and it still shows a big list of which apps are available to update, and auto update is still turned on... but I suspect something I disabled may be not allowing google play to actually run the updates. Any thoughts?
I was reading another thread about which things people have disabled, and someone mentioned the settings menu loads slower... another person knew right away that it was two services that you had to re-enable, so I figured maybe someone just kinda knew what to do without having to go through each service/package and guess...
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I ran basically the same huge long list that guy exported in the thread about disabling Bixby / etc.. and I didn't experience this issue. You may have to play the 50/50 game until you isolate which service is responsible
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Hello,
i got my s3 neo in 2015. when it was bought it was already somehow out of updates etc.
i heard alot of ppl rooting or putting a cfw on their android, but some things may not work or are buggy. some is more tested etc.
my question is, does CFW updates security fixes for android in general? and do they got updates aswell? e.g. openssl is somewhen from 2013. and there were some newer updates after it etc. same as android security fixes.
waht i read on a german board, was lolipop was the most stable, but it was cmod and not los. some things were bork etc.
and does los backport their security updates, provided by google, to cfw stuff or are security fixes, like cfw, device based? had in mind to by the fairphone but its to expensive for it.
and get lolipop or some other cfw security updates? i mean, it can be connected to the internet and without updates, somewhen it can be infected in theory.
i started looking into cfw stuff etc. when i read some appstore offered sourcedoes/audits on their offered apps, because they dont want fishy things. and it does improve the perfomance, what i can imagine. some things on phones, even on stocked, ware borked because of their custom energy function like alarm not working correctly, because manufacturer decided to stopp all not whitelisted programms in their shedule for energysavings etc. on some its possible to uninstall those packages with adb etc. and google dont like cfw/rooted devices and they will loose "find your phone" features e.g. because i never looked into such things, i lost the track of it at all.
regards