Windows Phone AVG antivirus app may be more dangerous than we thought
We broke the news the other night nigh AVG releasing an antivirus suite for Windows Phone. The app seemed harmless enough (and borderline useless to kicking), only being able to manually scan photos and music files, while also offer "rubber URL" spider web surfing.
Having a useless app is one thing, having an app that can potentially do some mischievous shenanigans is another. Its the latter that AVG is being accused of. Yes folks, AVG's app for Windows Phone may be spyware--that's irony.
Justin Angel bankrupt downward the app, did some analysis on it and plant information technology is improperly using the Geo Location (GeoCoordinateWatcher) to track the phone and ship all possible identifying data (telephone make, model, your e-mail address, location) onto AVG. For what purpose? Over at Centurion'due south Blog, he breaks it down to four possible uses:
- Quality assurance
- Info is sent to their Android app
- Geo info is used for location based search
- Collected information is used for marketing purposes
Whichever the reason, nonee of them benefit yous, meaning that this app has gone from questionable value to non-recommended at all. Furthermore, Microsoft's Brandon Watson is taking a await at the app too to run into if information technology violates whatever of the Market place guidelines. Stay tuned...
Source: Justin Angel; via Mobility Digest, Centurion's Blog; image credit @ailon
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