Our very good friends over at Lookout Security have announced the discovery of a new piece of malware that's harassing some Android users. GGTracker seems to be sneaking itself into a few users' ads, and disguises itself as an Android Market installation screen. While relatively low-risk, it does have the potential to rack up some “premium SMS” charges for infected users, potentially signing you for services that charge directly to your phone bill and usually require user interaction to sign up for. It's been sighted masquerading as a battery optimizer packaged as ‘t4t.pwower.management,' and in a porn app packaged as ‘com.space.sexypic' – so if you see either of those, be wary. As always, the best protection is to download Lookout Mobile Security from our apps database or from the Android Market to make sure you're completely protected, and the premium version will give you added “Safe Browsing” security that will check all browser links for security before directing you there. (If you don't already have Lookout Premium, but sure and use our exclusive promo code to save yourself five bucks on the purchase.)
So be wary, practice safe browser practices, and make sure you have at the very least the free version of Lookout installed on your phone. They'll watch out for you.
[via lookout – thanks Alicia!!]
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I wouldnt trust the carriers. I have played around with a number of A/V apps and i havent had an issue getting the removed
Someone needs to look into lookout their the ones that keep finding these supposed attacks. Verizon said not to install any kind of anti virus type of software he’ll all 3of the other carriers told me the same thing. Once you install it it takes an act of god to get it removed. Could it be a company would create their own virus to push sales of their anti virus crapware? Just a thought….