From: Rod Speed on
Farts farted

> Just finishing watching the local news and ACA came on. Lead article
> was about spyware on mobile phones. What they were refering to was a
> product that could track your SMSes, contacts, emails send via the
> mobile and even listen in on conversations.

> They didn't say what the software was. But what they didn't also say
> was how to look for it and to delete it if discovered. They just said
> to "reset it to factory defaults".

> And they didn't say how it got on, other than, at the end
> of the segment, to never let your phone out of your sight.

> From that we can assume that it requires
> someone to physically install it on your phone.

> So, if it's an installable program, it should be easy to uninstall, right?

Wrong. Most obviously when it deliberately attempts
to make it hard to see that its installed, stupid.

Lot easier for stupids to reset to the factory defaults, stupid.


From: Joe G (Home) on

"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa(a)gmail.com> wrote in message
news:8078ttFjhoU1(a)mid.individual.net...
> Farts farted
>
>> Just finishing watching the local news and ACA came on. Lead article
>> was about spyware on mobile phones. What they were refering to was a
>> product that could track your SMSes, contacts, emails send via the
>> mobile and even listen in on conversations.
>
>> They didn't say what the software was. But what they didn't also say
>> was how to look for it and to delete it if discovered. They just said
>> to "reset it to factory defaults".
>
>> And they didn't say how it got on, other than, at the end
>> of the segment, to never let your phone out of your sight.
>
>> From that we can assume that it requires
>> someone to physically install it on your phone.
>
>> So, if it's an installable program, it should be easy to uninstall,
>> right?
>
> Wrong. Most obviously when it deliberately attempts
> to make it hard to see that its installed, stupid.
>
> Lot easier for stupids to reset to the factory defaults, stupid.
>
oh... I can see a new business - Nortons Av for Windows mobile!

Joe