Thread: How to save infected Android tablet?
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2016-01-19 , 18:39
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Originally Posted by salyavin View Post
Well on Sailfish and such we don't grant permissions to installed applications so I suspect it would be even easier to make naughty software than Android but not one bothers as the userbase (potential targets) are too few.
Except it is all in chroot, so uninstall aliendalvik and it will be gone, the described situation of reflashing/resetting device to be still malwared should not be possible (sure there might be other exploits, but then it will be using some generic linux bugs/0days on top of android exploits that have to work in the emulated form, there definitely are holes, but you have two layers to get through)
 

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