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Title: How To Protect Against Stagefright
Post by: Skhilled on July 30, 2015, 08:30:42 PM

This is what the latest Android vulnerability is called and this is how you protect your mobile devices against it:

https://www.avast.com/en-us/faq.php?article=AVKB230#artTitle

Title: Re: How To Protect Against Stagefright
Post by: Ken on July 30, 2015, 09:03:44 PM

That sounds kind of rough for Android users. Most likely there will be a fix soon though.

Title: Re: How To Protect Against Stagefright
Post by: Skhilled on July 30, 2015, 10:19:12 PM

It's the same one I posted about here:

http://money.cnn.com/2015/07/27/technology/android-text-hack/index.html

But this is how you can protect yourself against it until they issue fixes for it. I have noticed a lot of updates lately for my Android/Google apps. And my avast! has been aggressively scanning all of my apps. They did announce that they were rolling out fixes for the various devices so I assume that those upgrades and the aggressive scanning are part of the process.