{"id":152,"date":"2011-01-05T09:34:36","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T09:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beta.sellcell.com\/blog\/?p=152"},"modified":"2019-04-12T11:08:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T11:08:18","slug":"warning-against-new-trojan-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sellcell.com\/blog\/warning-against-new-trojan-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Warning against new Trojan in China"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lookout describes Geinimi, saying that it is the most stylish piece of virus that Lookout has ever dealt with, and it has been found to acquire programmes through app stores in China in order to multiply itself.<\/p>\n

\u201cGeinimi is effectively being ‘grafted’ onto repackaged versions of legitimate applications, primarily games, and distributed in third-party Chinese Android app markets,\u201d Lookout adds. \u201cThe affected applications request extensive permissions over and above the set that is requested by their legitimate original versions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lookout also added further that it has already upgraded both the paid and free versions of its anti-virus software to give protection to cell phone users against Geinimi and other types of viruses.<\/p>\n

Though this particular Trojan is not touching the UK cell phone market presently, it can, if we don\u2019t exercise proper care against it. We are often forgetful about the fact that the smartphones we use are in effect, cell computing devices which are also very susceptible to virus attacks like our personal computer. It is always better to take careful actions against viruses and think twice about the programs that you choose to download onto your phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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