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It takes a couple of days being the talk of the specialized forums since Eckhart Trevor blew up all the alarms to inform Carrier IQ, a program that is installed in the root of the smartphone and is able to track everything you do with the mobile phone.
At first it was thought that only affected the Android OS smartphone but it is confirmed that the bite block also houses a spy worm inside. Here we provide a list of manufacturers whose models swear by Snoopy that their terminals are clean and give you some advice to see if your phone has inside this uncomfortable and dangerous guest.
At first the information from Eckhart was that the vast majority of BlackBerry smartphones and Android harbored an application that recorded every one of the characters typedwith your mobile.
Subsequently detected similar in IOS software suggests that although the only data stored are technical and it is disabled by default but later a famous hacker, chpwn , found traces of the now infamous Carrier IQ software IOS devices 3. Pulling the thread that reached the ball has reached the IOS5 modern but with a different name: "/ usr/bin/awd_ice2".
The good news is that at least in IOS Carrier IQ that no longer works when in diagnostic mode and in any case not have access to records for passwords, email messages, SMS ... because it is disabled by default. In normal operating mode in IOS Carrier IQ only registers your name, phone number, network operator information, some information about the calls you make and your position (if you have enabled the detection of position). Very reassuring that "only" register data.
In the unrest of users, some companies have strongly denied that its devices have this malicious software installed in them. This is all Google Nexus (Google Nexus One, Nexus Nexus S and Galaxy), the Nokia, marketed by O2, Verizon and Vodafone, the Windows Phone and Xoom.
Other terminals that have been tested and show no trace of Carrier IQ Kindle Fire, Photon Motorola, HTC and Motorola Atrix 4G G2.
Meanwhile RIM (BlackBerry manufacturer) stated that they have no record of its terminals can be installed Carrier IQ "factory" and that if it appears in a device (the eye that are curved) "they will be the sole responsibility of the user." If you clear all meteis in BlackBerry, a prodigy of open operating system, and then what happens happens.
Finally, if you want to check if your terminal has spyware Carrier IQ the discoverer of it,Trevor Eckhart has made available to users free software that detects its presence . It is a very basic application for Android and all it does is check if the terminal is infected or not. A pro version is worth $ 1 and mobile clean Carrier IQ but it is important to note that the device will have to have done a root to run this application removed, in which case you probably installed something like Cyanogen, in principle, would prevent Carrier had been housed IQ.
In addition, this app is not confirmed that cleaning work on all terminals and you could end cargándote Android smartphone and will be the remedy worse than the disease.
Perhaps the best recommendation is to install the app and if detection (Jobs forbid) the result is positive almost better to install a ROM "cooked" for your device where you have total confidence and does not contain the happy Carrier IQ
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