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Re: [apple-iphone] Malware in iPhone 6 iOS 9.0.2

 

Yes, Brent.
I agree with you.
I have taken all the precautions by barring most of the apps from cellular use.
In any case, I am a mostly home bound person and have access to a wifi.
Most of the apps work with wifi and SMS can not use wifi ( I hope that is correct).
Thanks a lot once again.
Best
PKS 

On 30 Oct 2015, at 23:48, Brent whodo678@yahoo.com [apple-iphone] <apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

Pabitra, you need to remember that we can not see your devices and so we have no idea if you have only one downloaded app or hundreds. 

Usually, the apps you download from the AppStore are safe, but on occasion a bad one slips by. 

At this point, you could disable the third party ones, and only allow a few cellular access. By process of elimination, you can try to find the one that is the problem.

IF and I do mean if, one of them is a problem. It might just be an issue at your provider's end. 

Several years back, I gave a cell phone and was paying for top off cards for a friend. He was working for me and I needed to be able to reach him. I also set it up so he could call our distant mutual friend. But he seemed to be burning through the cards like crazy. Mike, being technophobic, I checked his online account, and saw that a lot of toll or added value calls were being made, but from being made first from the US west coast and then minutes later from the east coast.  So I called the provider, and asked if phone cloning was still possible. They said no. Then I asked them how the account could make calls from both coasts within minutes of each other. Final answer was that it supposedly was an error in their billing computer, to the tune of nearly $300 in just a couple of months. 

While it is most likely a rogue app on your phone, that is not the only possible answer. Especially since it is going to a VAS. Do a web search and see if there are other complaints about charges for that particular VAS.


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Re: [apple-iphone] Malware in iPhone 6 iOS 9.0.2

 

Got it.
Thanks

Best
PKS 

On 31 Oct 2015, at 00:19, Jim Saklad jimdoc@icloud.com [apple-iphone] <apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

I would start with Settings — Battery — Usage to look at the apps using the most power.

I could not locate battery under settings.
PKS 

In iOS 9.x :


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Re: [apple-iphone] Malware in iPhone 6 iOS 9.0.2

 

Or it could be more of the baloney that they Telco's have been doing for decades. 

Way back, before cell phones and even pagers that you could carry, my dad kept getting billed for long distance calls to a number in Dallas, Texas. The Ma Bell insisted that he made the calls going back months. My dad asked them why he was making 20 minute calls to a butcher shop, when we lived in California. They credited him back several hundred dollars for that one, also.

Have you wondered why your phone bill is so hard to read? They do it to confuse people.


On Oct 30, 2015, at 12:04 PM, Susan Ferraglio bladessf@aol.com [apple-iphone] wrote:

 

A couple of years back I got a 10 charge on my At&t bill for a similar VAS. I called billing. They said it might have been an errant click on a spam text. I didn't click on anything but my husband who is not tech savvy at all said he may have clicked indiscriminately on a text to get rid of it. At&t just dis-enrolled us from the service and credited the account the 10. 
Could it have been a spam text responded to incorrectly?? 

Cordially,
Sue Ferraglio-Genecco, DVM

On Oct 30, 2015, at 2:18 PM, Brent whodo678@yahoo.com [apple-iphone] <apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Pabitra, you need to remember that we can not see your devices and so we have no idea if you have only one downloaded app or hundreds. 

Usually, the apps you download from the AppStore are safe, but on occasion a bad one slips by. 

At this point, you could disable the third party ones, and only allow a few cellular access. By process of elimination, you can try to find the one that is the problem.

IF and I do mean if, one of them is a problem. It might just be an issue at your provider's end. 

Several years back, I gave a cell phone and was paying for top off cards for a friend. He was working for me and I needed to be able to reach him. I also set it up so he could call our distant mutual friend. But he seemed to be burning through the cards like crazy. Mike, being technophobic, I checked his online account, and saw that a lot of toll or added value calls w ere being made, but from being made first from the US west coast and then minutes later from the east coast.  So I called the provider, and asked if phone cloning was still possible. They said no. Then I asked them how the account could make calls from both coasts within minutes of each other. Final answer was that it supposedly was an error in their billing computer, to the tune of nearly $300 in just a couple of months. 

While it is most likely a rogue app on your phone, that is not the only possible answer. Especially since it is going to a VAS. Do a web search and see if there are other complaints about charges for that particular VAS.


On Oct 30, 2015, at 10:29 AM, Pabitra Saha pksaha000@yahoo.co.uk [apple-iphone] wrote:

 

Thanks Brent.
Only thing I can confirm that I had about 30 apps and all were from AppStore.
I was under the impression that they were safe.
I have deleted about 5 which I had not used in last three months.
Some are non removable since they come as part of iOS ( like iTunes Store , Watch, Podcasts, Find friends ) & not used by me. I have disabled them from cellular usage.

Let's hope now I do not land up with some other problem.

Best
PKS 

On 30 Oct 2015, at 22:27, Brent whodo678@yahoo.com [apple-iphone] <apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

Pabitra, the key words from your provider is __may have__, not _you have_. It will be up to you to go through the apps on your iPhone to verify that none _say_ they send SMS, and then go through them again, to verify that they are all from reputable developers that would not sneak or hide malware into their app.

Brent


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Re: [apple-iphone] Malware in iPhone 6 iOS 9.0.2

 

A couple of years back I got a 10 charge on my At&t bill for a similar VAS. I called billing. They said it might have been an errant click on a spam text. I didn't click on anything but my husband who is not tech savvy at all said he may have clicked indiscriminately on a text to get rid of it. At&t just dis-enrolled us from the service and credited the account the 10. 
Could it have been a spam text responded to incorrectly?? 

Cordially,
Sue Ferraglio-Genecco, DVM

On Oct 30, 2015, at 2:18 PM, Brent whodo678@yahoo.com [apple-iphone] <apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Pabitra, you need to remember that we can not see your devices and so we have no idea if you have only one downloaded app or hundreds. 

Usually, the apps you download from the AppStore are safe, but on occasion a bad one slips by. 

At this point, you could disable the third party ones, and only allow a few cellular access. By process of elimination, you can try to find the one that is the problem.

IF and I do mean if, one of them is a problem. It might just be an issue at your provider's end. 

Several years back, I gave a cell phone and was paying for top off cards for a friend. He was working for me and I needed to be able to reach him. I also set it up so he could call our distant mutual friend. But he seemed to be burning through the cards like crazy. Mike, being technophobic, I checked his online account, and saw that a lot of toll or added value calls w ere being made, but from being made first from the US west coast and then minutes later from the east coast.  So I called the provider, and asked if phone cloning was still possible. They said no. Then I asked them how the account could make calls from both coasts within minutes of each other. Final answer was that it supposedly was an error in their billing computer, to the tune of nearly $300 in just a couple of months. 

While it is most likely a rogue app on your phone, that is not the only possible answer. Especially since it is going to a VAS. Do a web search and see if there are other complaints about charges for that particular VAS.


On Oct 30, 2015, at 10:29 AM, Pabitra Saha pksaha000@yahoo.co.uk [apple-iphone] wrote:

 

Thanks Brent.
Only thing I can confirm that I had about 30 apps and all were from AppStore.
I was under the impression that they were safe.
I have deleted about 5 which I had not used in last three months.
Some are non removable since they come as part of iOS ( like iTunes Store , Watch, Podcasts, Find friends ) & not used by me. I have disabled them from cellular usage.

Let's hope now I do not land up with some other problem.

Best
PKS 

On 30 Oct 2015, at 22:27, Brent whodo678@yahoo.com [apple-iphone] <apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

Pabitra, the key words from your provider is __may have__, not _you have_. It will be up to you to go through the apps on your iPhone to verify that none _say_ they send SMS, and then go through them again, to verify that they are all from reputable developers that would not sneak or hide malware into their app.

Brent

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Re: [apple-iphone] Malware in iPhone 6 iOS 9.0.2

 

I would start with Settings — Battery — Usage to look at the apps using the most power.

I could not locate battery under settings.
PKS 

In iOS 9.x :


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Pabitra, you need to remember that we can not see your devices and so we have no idea if you have only one downloaded app or hundreds. 

Usually, the apps you download from the AppStore are safe, but on occasion a bad one slips by. 

At this point, you could disable the third party ones, and only allow a few cellular access. By process of elimination, you can try to find the one that is the problem.

IF and I do mean if, one of them is a problem. It might just be an issue at your provider's end. 

Several years back, I gave a cell phone and was paying for top off cards for a friend. He was working for me and I needed to be able to reach him. I also set it up so he could call our distant mutual friend. But he seemed to be burning through the cards like crazy. Mike, being technophobic, I checked his online account, and saw that a lot of toll or added value calls were being made, but from being made first from the US west coast and then minutes later from the east coast.  So I called the provider, and asked if phone cloning was still possible. They said no. Then I asked them how the account could make calls from both coasts within minutes of each other. Final answer was that it supposedly was an error in their billing computer, to the tune of nearly $300 in just a couple of months. 

While it is most likely a rogue app on your phone, that is not the only possible answer. Especially since it is going to a VAS. Do a web search and see if there are other complaints about charges for that particular VAS.


On Oct 30, 2015, at 10:29 AM, Pabitra Saha pksaha000@yahoo.co.uk [apple-iphone] wrote:

 

Thanks Brent.
Only thing I can confirm that I had about 30 apps and all were from AppStore.
I was under the impression that they were safe.
I have deleted about 5 which I had not used in last three months.
Some are non removable since they come as part of iOS ( like iTunes Store , Watch, Podcasts, Find friends ) & not used by me. I have disabled them from cellular usage.

Let's hope now I do not land up with some other problem.

Best
PKS 

On 30 Oct 2015, at 22:27, Brent whodo678@yahoo.com [apple-iphone] <apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

Pabitra, the key words from your provider is __may have__, not _you have_. It will be up to you to go through the apps on your iPhone to verify that none _say_ they send SMS, and then go through them again, to verify that they are all from reputable developers that would not sneak or hide malware into their app.

Brent

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Re: [apple-iphone] Malware in iPhone 6 iOS 9.0.2

 

Thanks Brent.
Only thing I can confirm that I had about 30 apps and all were from AppStore.
I was under the impression that they were safe.
I have deleted about 5 which I had not used in last three months.
Some are non removable since they come as part of iOS ( like iTunes Store , Watch, Podcasts, Find friends ) & not used by me. I have disabled them from cellular usage.

Let's hope now I do not land up with some other problem.

Best
PKS 

On 30 Oct 2015, at 22:27, Brent whodo678@yahoo.com [apple-iphone] <apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

 

Pabitra, the key words from your provider is __may have__, not _you have_. It will be up to you to go through the apps on your iPhone to verify that none _say_ they send SMS, and then go through them again, to verify that they are all from reputable developers that would not sneak or hide malware into their app.

Brent


On Oct 30, 2015, at 8:21 AM, Jim Saklad jimdoc@icloud.com [apple-iphone] wrote:

 

It is not there on my iPhone.

My provider only said that I may be having an app called emo or similar app which sends SMS to a a VAS number 4488…

So *that* one isn't there, but you can't know what other one is responsible.

What are my options?

Sounds like you may have to go through all the apps on the device, asking yourself "SMS'?". 

I would start with Settings — Battery — Usage to look at the apps using the most power.

Also, Settings — Cellular will show you a list of everything on the device, in alphabetical order (to let you allow or dis-allow cellular use by that app). For your purpose here, it's just a convenient list of all the apps.

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