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Re: Exposed:The Real Disadvantage Of Rooting Yr Phone by Nobody: 1:35am On Nov 30, 2014
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Re: Exposed:The Real Disadvantage Of Rooting Yr Phone by Collinz2(m): 7:43am On Nov 30, 2014
alotofgrace:


for example??
root explorer is an app or use es file explorer
Re: Exposed:The Real Disadvantage Of Rooting Yr Phone by alotofgrace(m): 8:08am On Nov 30, 2014
Collinz2:
root explorer is an app or use es file explorer


ok...how about X-plore?
Re: Exposed:The Real Disadvantage Of Rooting Yr Phone by Nobody: 8:37am On Nov 30, 2014
adiposus:
'ast week i was using a friend's rootedandroid phone, so i Decided to do some experiment and i went into the root section of the phone. I did some things and like magic i got the password of his yahoo mail, gmail andFacebook account.'…… .
That piece of shit was from you , now its only whatsapp !!!GO AND SLEEP….. CLOSE THIS THREAD.
grin grin
Re: Exposed:The Real Disadvantage Of Rooting Yr Phone by okoheemmanuel: 8:41am On Nov 30, 2014
android phones can contact virus 4rm infected laptop, bt it does not ve strong effect on it. i contacted a virus 4rm my laptop dat hid all my folders containin 5.3gig and replaced it wit a shortcut of abt 1kb

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Re: Exposed:The Real Disadvantage Of Rooting Yr Phone by Collinz2(m): 8:43am On Nov 30, 2014
alotofgrace:



ok...how about X-plore?
Re: Exposed:The Real Disadvantage Of Rooting Yr Phone by Nobody: 9:16am On Nov 30, 2014
chuks315:
Being a security enthusiast, I'm inclined to believe that it is very possible. How did you do it?
for Mobile Police or Mobile Phones?
Re: Exposed:The Real Disadvantage Of Rooting Yr Phone by promisador: 5:23pm On Nov 30, 2014
Nathan2222:


Biggest lie ever. Android phones do get viruses.



It also removes your manufacturer's/seller's warranty and protection against viruses.

To the second comment, you're wrong Mhen! I rooted my Android mobile without voiding its manufacturer warranty. I still get OTA updates and it still reads the warranty code for me, date of purchase and other data. Reason : I rooted my phone without unlocking the bootloader. It's way better than the other method where you gotta unlock your bootloader. No security threats whatsoever. My data are intact. No phishing. :-)
Re: Exposed:The Real Disadvantage Of Rooting Yr Phone by Chimezie250(m): 7:46pm On Nov 30, 2014
Tweetums:
Shut up.... Same article had been published before...
bad girl you didn't allow the guy to land ,easy

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Re: Exposed:The Real Disadvantage Of Rooting Yr Phone by Nobody: 7:53pm On Nov 30, 2014
deejayharry1:
[b]in a wierd way, you are the ignorant one here.. all your post though... you realize that avast would see any. bat file as a virus?? meanwhile a bat code extensioncan be a programming language that helps, but because avast doesn't know the extension it sees it as a virus? .. same applies to. tar extension, .sys, .bin.. look closely under my pics, thats the extensions i enabled the avast to detect as virus, i can decide to remove the .ink extension and avast would stop seeing any. ink extension as a virus, same applies to all other extensions... root acess has nothing to do with avast or virus or what not.. root allows a user to alter or modify the Android system partition to any thing the user so desires.... with root you can easily detect any bad system file and edit it.. but without root the avast you so highly praise is only limited to USER DATA PARTITION, and can't save one from SYSTEM DATA PARTITION if a bad file or corrupt file gets in their.. avast doesn't cure virus or get rid of virus, avast restricts some certain extensions from getting into your phone if it doesn't recognize it or sees it as a malware, it doesn't make the file a virus.. it means avast devs simply don't want the user taking risks... STOP DOING THIS.. STOP EMBARASSING Nathan2222[/b]

Who should stop embarassing themselves?
The guy who provided links to websites showing you the security risks of rooting your Android phone i.e. me?

OR

The guy who blabbed on about certain issues with avast! in relation to Windows and even foolishly went ahead to post photos of the display of his PC OS, and as if that wasn't enough, he also decided to make baseless assumptions on what kind of file the anti-virus deleted i.e. you.

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avast! deleted an executable file (.exe) from my mom's Android, not a .bat, .tar, .sys, .ink and sure as hell not a .bin.
Next time, read before you post and oh, stop embarassing yourself wink
Re: Exposed:The Real Disadvantage Of Rooting Yr Phone by zeanslim(m): 7:58pm On Nov 30, 2014
victorix:


now to clear yr doubt , dis is a screenshot of a whatsapp database i decypted. So say what u like.....

guy, this tread is a waste of time, ... so if the smart guy can extract a password from a rooted phone (let's go with your impossible logic)

so , the smart guy can't root an Android phone ? if your phone is not rooted

you see, your tread is so baseless.

the best way of security is to encrypt your phone and also don't let smart guys like me handle it.


now close this tread .!
Re: Exposed:The Real Disadvantage Of Rooting Yr Phone by Nobody: 7:59pm On Nov 30, 2014
Collinz2:
u know nothing

Really? Let's see:

- I knew that Android, just like every other OS, is susceptible to malware.
You didn't.

- I knew that rooting your Android makes it more susceptible to malware, and in most cases, voids your warranty.
You didn't.

- I knew that a statement such as "all the links u provide dnt tell me how android can contact virus." is as silly as saying "I have no idea how viruses work"
You didn't, and based on that statement means you have no idea what a virus really is.

So if I know "nothing" like you said, you are literally an empty vessel.
Re: Exposed:The Real Disadvantage Of Rooting Yr Phone by zeanslim(m): 8:00pm On Nov 30, 2014
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Re: Exposed:The Real Disadvantage Of Rooting Yr Phone by Collinz2(m): 8:40pm On Nov 30, 2014
Nathan2222 u think u know it all bt u dnt

all the top android geek at xda forum knows that rooting void the phone's warranty bt yet they root and tweak.

u said android get infected by virus and u provide links to prove it bt the links only xplain wht is malware and types of malware, types of virus, and worms.

u said ur mom's android phone avast anti virus deleted an executable file in .exe format now u mean .exe files are virus on android phone and whts hell is windows file doing in ur mom's phone?

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Re: Exposed:The Real Disadvantage Of Rooting Yr Phone by Nobody: 8:58pm On Nov 30, 2014
Collinz2:
Nathan2222 u think u know it all bt u dnt

That's what you were trying to feel like.


all the top android geek at xda forum knows that rooting void the phone's warranty bt yet they root and tweak.

Duh?


u said android get infected by virus and u provide links to prove it bt the links only xplain wht is malware and types of malware, types of virus, and worms.

False, false, false


u said ur mom's android phone avast anti virus deleted an executable file in .exe format now u mean .exe files are virus on android phone

Are you sure you know what a virus is? Are you seriously ignorant of the fact that viruses infect .exe files?

and whts hell is windows file doing in ur mom's phone?

I never said that. It was another poster that made silly comments relating to Windows.
Re: Exposed:The Real Disadvantage Of Rooting Yr Phone by Nobody: 9:04pm On Nov 30, 2014
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victorix:
What am about to share many of you dont know. This is the real disadvantage of rooting your andriod phone.

From my experience of using android phones the only disadvantage of rooting i have observed is that, Rooting removes the protection and security of an andriod phone. When i say ''protection'' i dont mean, protection against virus, becus andriod phone dont contact virus.

When i say it removes the protection, i mean, yr privacy protection.
Last week i was using a friend's rooted android phone, so i Decided to do some experiment and i went into the root section of the phone. I did some things and like magic i got the password of his yahoo mail, gmail and Facebook account. Since then i knew android phones has no security.

If i hold any rooted phone, i can get the password of the person's Email, the person's conversation ( like 2go, facebook conversation) and even the person password to all social network.

If you use some banking apps like diamond bank app on a rooted phone, its a big risk to you, becus a tech expert can easliy get yr bank infomation and and stuffs like dat.

So rooting yr phone depends on what you use the phone for, if u jst wanna customise yr phone, play hd games, delete unwanted sys apps and minimise yr data usage, u can root yr phone but BeWare Of Hackers....
[/s]

CRAP CRAP CRAP
A banker could get your phone details if you root your phone??
Cone do you think you're talking to your village people?
How on earth does root access to system files concern an online banking app?

Next, you used your friends phone and you got all his passwords. Wow. You're a genius. But you didn't tell us if he used a password saver that remembers his passwords or if you actually hacked yahoo mail for Android (then I'll call you a big liar)

This story is for illiterates on nairaland that want to believe the cool story sha.

Outta here

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Re: Exposed:The Real Disadvantage Of Rooting Yr Phone by Nobody: 9:15pm On Nov 30, 2014
ebdib:
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CRAP CRAP CRAP
A banker could get your phone details if you root your phone??
Cone do you think you're talking to your village people?
How on earth does root access to system files concern an online banking app?

Next, you used your friends phone and you got all his passwords. Wow. You're a genius. But you didn't tell us if he used a password saver that remembers his passwords or if you actually hacked yahoo mail for Android (then I'll call you a big liar)

This story is for illiterates on nairaland that want to believe the cool story sha.

Outta here

He was actually saying the truth, making you the village illiterate talking crap.

From here

This all changes when you run an application as root. The application is no longer running in a sandboxed area – it has access to the entire system. An app with root permissions can read other apps’ data

...

The full system access means that malware could potentially exploit root access to do much more damage than it normally could. Once an app is granted root access, it can do anything – run a key logger in the background without telling you, extract your account information from other apps, or even mess up your device by deleting critical system files.
Re: Exposed:The Real Disadvantage Of Rooting Yr Phone by Collinz2(m): 9:54pm On Nov 30, 2014
Nathan2222 u are talkimg of malware that steals info on android phone bt am talking of the virus that can crush android phone.
Re: Exposed:The Real Disadvantage Of Rooting Yr Phone by Nobody: 9:59pm On Nov 30, 2014
Collinz2:
Nathan2222 u are talkimg of malware that steals info on android phone bt am talking of the virus that can crush android phone.

Virus is a type of malware.


In case you missed this from the link in the post above:

The full system access means that malware could potentially exploit root access to do much more damage than it normally could. Once an app is granted root access, it can do anything – run a key logger in the background without telling you, extract your account information from other apps, or even mess up your device by deleting critical system files.
Re: Exposed:The Real Disadvantage Of Rooting Yr Phone by Nobody: 10:15pm On Nov 30, 2014
Nathan2222:


He was actually saying the truth, making you the village illiterate talking crap.

From here

Lol.
So he checked his friend's yahoo mail password by hacking the guys phone?
Nigga please.
If you're talking whiz kids who can check system flaws and loops in nano seconds then quote me.
That dude certainly didn't.


Oh and by the way your article isn't related to what you just said about system apps. Being able to get root access to files doesn't make it all susceptible to sudden password hacks.

Iphones that are even secure and not rooted get hacked all the time
Rooting is just bootloader access so what's the big deal anyway.

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Re: Exposed:The Real Disadvantage Of Rooting Yr Phone by Nobody: 10:21pm On Nov 30, 2014
ebdib:

That dude certainly didn't.

I said he was being truthful about how rooting makes Android easier to hack.


Oh and by the way your article isn't related to what you just said about system apps.

Really?

Being able to get root access to files doesn't make it all susceptible to sudden password hacks.

The point is that it makes it more susceptible.


Iphones that are even secure and not rooted get hacked all the time

And yet some were claiming Android can't get infected.
Re: Exposed:The Real Disadvantage Of Rooting Yr Phone by Francheezy(m): 10:37pm On Nov 30, 2014
*Smh* is this something you should be scared of Even without rooting, Google can decide to get any info they want from your Android phone (but that's Google) . You should be scared of that.

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Re: Exposed:The Real Disadvantage Of Rooting Yr Phone by Nobody: 10:42pm On Nov 30, 2014
Francheezy:
*Smh* is this something you should be scared of Even without rooting, Google can decide to get any info they want from your Android phone (but that's Google) .

And they don't already? Gmail, G+, YouTube etc.

You should be scared of that.

I'd think a multibillion dollar company would be more interested in hacking companies and/or competitor's products than one of their own, especially when they don't need to.
Re: Exposed:The Real Disadvantage Of Rooting Yr Phone by Francheezy(m): 10:48pm On Nov 30, 2014
Nathan2222:


And they don't already? Gmail, G+, YouTube etc.



I'd think a multibillion dollar company would be more interested in hacking companies and/or competitor's products than one of their own, especially when they don't need to.

I am not saying they will hack it. What I am saying is that we are not as secured as we think we are. Rooted or not rooted.

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Re: Exposed:The Real Disadvantage Of Rooting Yr Phone by Nobody: 10:52pm On Nov 30, 2014
Francheezy:


I am not saying they will hack it. What I am saying is that we are not as secured as we think we are. Rooted or not rooted.

I completely agree, unrooting it just makes it easier.
Re: Exposed:The Real Disadvantage Of Rooting Yr Phone by Nobody: 11:37pm On Nov 30, 2014
Nathan2222:


Who should stop embarassing themselves?
The guy who provided links to websites showing you the security risks of rooting your Android phone i.e. me?

OR

The guy who blabbed on about certain issues with avast! in relation to Windows and even foolishly went ahead to post photos of the display of his PC OS, and as if that wasn't enough, he also decided to make baseless assumptions on what kind of file the anti-virus deleted i.e. you.

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avast! deleted an executable file (.exe) from my mom's Android, not a .bat, .tar, .sys, .ink and sure as hell not a .bin.
Next time, read before you post and oh, stop embarassing yourself wink
why was their an (.exe) extension on her android? android doesn't run exe.. are you saying the earler Nathan222 posts weren't yours?? Well okay.. smiley

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Re: Exposed:The Real Disadvantage Of Rooting Yr Phone by Nobody: 11:52pm On Nov 30, 2014
deejayharry1:
why was their an (.exe) extension on her android? android doesn't run exe..

Thanks for confusing me, I meant .apk.
Re: Exposed:The Real Disadvantage Of Rooting Yr Phone by Nobody: 11:57pm On Nov 30, 2014
Nathan2222:


Thanks for confusing me, I meant .apk.
if all i typed confusef you, then i guess you aren't the geek i thought you were, you are just a random user working on assumptions.. its alright though.. i am sorry for the confusion as you call it.. **goes back to xda**

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Re: Exposed:The Real Disadvantage Of Rooting Yr Phone by Nobody: 12:00am On Dec 01, 2014
deejayharry1:
[b]if all i typed confusef you, then i guess you aren't the geek i thought you were,

And when you bring up Windows in an Android thread, coupled with statements like "confusef", I shouldn't be?

you are just a random user working on assumptions..

Exactly what you are based on that your large blab about avast! & Windows.
Re: Exposed:The Real Disadvantage Of Rooting Yr Phone by Nobody: 12:03am On Dec 01, 2014
Nathan2222:


And when you bring up Windows in an Android thread, coupled with statements like "confusef", I shouldn't be?



Exactly what you are based on that your large blab about avast! & Windows.
Kk

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Re: Exposed:The Real Disadvantage Of Rooting Yr Phone by Nobody: 12:05am On Dec 01, 2014
deejayharry1:
Kk

One question though, why do you use bold text?

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