Latest Virus in Android smartphones… “Dendroid” ..

 

An alert is issued by the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team(CERT-In) to all the Android smartphone users about the dangerous “Dendroid” virus. This virus is of the trojan family, which when infected to the Android smartphone, can “completely compromise” it and allows the attacker to control the Android smartphone remotely.

A malicious toolkit called Dendroid is being used to create this trojanised application and the toolkit is used to control this malware as well. This trojanised malware infects the Android OS-based smartphones.This malware is created by modifying the permissions that are required by any clean(virus free) Android Package File(APK) with Dendroid RAT(Remote Access Trojan) functionality which as a result, allows detailed and easy management of the attacked devices.

Once this virus is activated, it could change the command and can control the server of  the infected Android phone.It also performs many dangerous activities on the infected device.The results of this “attack toolkit” are:
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Fix switch off problem in Android phones

Usually in Android mobile phones,when you hold the power button it should display a menu with a set of options which allows you to power off your phone,turn it into airplane mode or  restart the phone.But sometimes, this function may stop working.

To fix android phones with this problem, restarting the phone by taking out its battery and re-inserting it may sometimes help. But there are Android phones in which the battery could not be taken out and in such phones,restarting and checking is not a helpful option.

Restoring the phone to factory settings works in this case. To restart your android phone, follow the given path:

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