Path: csiph.com!au2pb.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Roger Mills Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Stagefright Detector App Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2015 22:03:08 +0100 Organization: Association of Revolting Peasants Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <42b616f054.DaveMeUK@my.inbox.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 0QSQJwfyxr2u/Ji8ztr/KQq46tQMV4lXZXYlQy064XDn0sBrAq Cancel-Lock: sha1:KoJQm0qzzjx6wvebRiaFgneUYA8= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120312 Thunderbird/11.0 In-Reply-To: <42b616f054.DaveMeUK@my.inbox.com> Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.android:21849 On 08/08/2015 20:58, Dave Higton wrote: > In message > "s|b" wrote: > >> Stagefright Detector App - by Zimperium INC. >> >> >> Installed on my Samsung Galaxy S4 Mini. After analysis it shows this: >> >> >> It seems I'm still vulnerable, after disabling MMS auto video download >> and auto video download in WhatsApp and Viber. (Hangouts is supposed to >> be uninstalled.) >> >> What now? > > Yes. The above app is a misnomer - it isn't a detector at all. It > merely makes a claim as to whether your device could be vulnerable. > If you've disabled all the routes by which SF could do anything, it > /still/ says you could be vulnerable - I don't think it detects > whether the routes are or are not enabled. > > Pretty much useless IMHO. > > Dave It looks to me like an app designed to frighten you into buying something else which you almost certainly don't need! -- Cheers, Roger ____________ Please reply to Newsgroup. Whilst email address is valid, it is seldom checked.