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30+ Infected Apps Pulled From Android Market

Posted by samzenpus on from the one-bad-app-spoiling-the-barrel dept.

Trailrunner7 writes "Researchers have identified a second large batch of apps in the Android Market that have been infected with the DroidDream malware, estimating that upwards of 30,000 users have downloaded at least one of the more than 30 infected apps. Google has removed the apps from the market. There are at least 34 applications that researchers have found in the Android Market in the last few days that had a version of the DroidDream malware dropped into them. Once a user installs one of the infected applications, the malicious component, which researchers have dubbed DroidDream Light, will kick in once the user receives an incoming call. The malware then gathers some identifying information from the phone, including its IMEI number, IMSI number, packages installed and other data, and then sends it off to a pre-configured remote server."

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  1. Get off the couch, folks. by Dr.Bob,DC · · Score: -1, Offtopic


    Take a step back for a moment and think if this is really an earth shattering event. Some apps get pulled, big deal. Think of the bigger picture: maybe some people will quit playing games on their phones, get off the couch and get some exercise!

    To the earlier link to cellphones causing cancer and now this, I say "GOOD!", let them go!

    The vast majority of human evolution happened before the invention of radio waves and radiation flooding our bodies with their deadly effect. It has been only in the past 100ish years that people started to get ill with cancers, heart disease, diabetes and other ills caused by the rapid increase of vertebral subluxations.

    Get off the couch, start exercising. Maybe consider a vegan, or at least organic vegetarian diet. Feel like a burger? No! All the hormones in beef to straight to your spine causing subluxation growth. Try a delicious organic veggie burger instead. Feel like potato chips? Try some yummy organic celery sticks with a misting of organic sesame oil!

    Go for a walk, it's summertime, folks! Enjoy some no or light impact sports. Above all else, if you feel *anything* in your spinal area which just isn't right, get to trained chiropractor. They will attend to the subluxation and get you back on your path to good health!

    You have only one life: MAXIMIZE IT!

    Take care,
    Bob

    --
    Chiropractic Saves Lives!