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Many people, some of whom visit here are suspicious of Windows 10 and prefer to use a more open-source type of operating system. Of course, these have both advantages and disadvantages.
I have reported a number of issues with Android over the last few months, apps being produced with malware embedded etc.
The latest revelation is that thousands of apps have hidden back doors. The type of backdoors ranged from secret access keys, master passwords, to secret commands. Today I have experienced attacks on my wife's PC to the point of corrupting a file she was working on, destroying her WIFI connection, blocking her ability to print documents, and stopping normal use of her mobile phone. At the same time, having changed my mobile phone provider a couple of months ago following 41 days of zero signal with Three without any warnings from the company, during the last six month period at a time when almost everyone is working from home, I finally gave in my notice to them yesterday and not only attacks on my home network but also (sad and impotent) script kiddie files injected into my phone's data stream to kill the mobile signal appear to be the result. They say in every barrel there are always one or two bad apples, yet nobody is ever answerable for these attacks, I uninstalled their app and the attacks stopped
To give you the full picture about the Android app vulnerability read about it here
I have reported a number of issues with Android over the last few months, apps being produced with malware embedded etc.
The latest revelation is that thousands of apps have hidden back doors. The type of backdoors ranged from secret access keys, master passwords, to secret commands. Today I have experienced attacks on my wife's PC to the point of corrupting a file she was working on, destroying her WIFI connection, blocking her ability to print documents, and stopping normal use of her mobile phone. At the same time, having changed my mobile phone provider a couple of months ago following 41 days of zero signal with Three without any warnings from the company, during the last six month period at a time when almost everyone is working from home, I finally gave in my notice to them yesterday and not only attacks on my home network but also (sad and impotent) script kiddie files injected into my phone's data stream to kill the mobile signal appear to be the result. They say in every barrel there are always one or two bad apples, yet nobody is ever answerable for these attacks, I uninstalled their app and the attacks stopped
To give you the full picture about the Android app vulnerability read about it here
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