Lookout

[Junu2234]

I installed yesterday and I seems to drain the battery faster than I drain it myself, is it worth it?

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[spaz33g]

There's no need. There are currently no viruses for android so its just wasting space and resources.

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[AngryHatter]

Waste of time, memory, battery et cetera.

[Wuzz Ranger]

Android Phones are Infected by Trojan virus | TheTechJournal.com

You wanna take those words back????

I have Lookout and it doesn't drain my battery.

[jstafford1]

Android Phones are Infected by Trojan virus | TheTechJournal.com

You wanna take those words back????

I have Lookout and it doesn't drain my battery.

That's not so much a virus as a maliscious app. It said the app wasn't from the market and a media player app should have permissions dealing with txts. As has been said before check the permissions for the apps you download and if it doesn't jive with what the app does, don't install.

Who knows if lookout would have caught this? It was given permission to do what it did.



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[Wuzz Ranger]

Android Phones are Infected by Trojan virus | TheTechJournal.com

You wanna take those words back????

I have Lookout and it doesn't drain my battery.

That's not so much a virus as a maliscious app. It said the app wasn't from the market and a media player app should have permissions dealing with txts. As has been said before check the permissions for the apps you download and if it doesn't jive with what the app does, don't install.

Who knows if lookout would have caught this? It was given permission to do what it did.



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A virus and or trojan is ran off of a malicious app that you download on your pc, same thing here buddy. An application is the same thing as an executable. I'm sure I'm not the only one that doesn't download apps from only the Marketplace. Apps are only going to get smarter and it's better to be safe than sorry!

[jstafford1]

But still....does lookout check for things you gave it permission to do?
Even off market apps have a list of permissions.

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[techguru]

But still....does lookout check for things you gave it permission to do?
Even off market apps have a list of permissions.

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Lookout checks for unusual permissions and gives a warning during install if they seem excessive. It checks for known malware (so may have missed the first few installs of this, but once it was reported, their update would catch it). Also, the lookout developers are the ones who have discovered much of the Malware that is in the wild, so they are out hunting it.

Given the popularity of Android, and the ease of programming for it in Java (and even the low entry cost and lack of controls on the official market) it is going to be the target of malware, and having some kind of protection is just being smart.

Alan

[Wuzz Ranger]

But still....does lookout check for things you gave it permission to do?
Even off market apps have a list of permissions.

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Lookout checks for unusual permissions and gives a warning during install if they seem excessive. It checks for known malware (so may have missed the first few installs of this, but once it was reported, their update would catch it). Also, the lookout developers are the ones who have discovered much of the Malware that is in the wild, so they are out hunting it.

Given the popularity of Android, and the ease of programming for it in Java (and even the low entry cost and lack of controls on the official market) it is going to be the target of malware, and having some kind of protection is just being smart.

Alan

Umm...I mean yeah......ummm what he said :P

[jstafford1]

Wasn't sure how it worked....good to know though. Still gonna take my chances without it.

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