Carrier IQ

**Duard** · 12-02-2011, 07:37 AM

Hi. There has been a lot of publicity about AT&T installing the Carrier IQ spyware rootkit in the Android phones they sell. There are instructions here

on how to detect whether a phone is infected with CIQ, but it required that the phone be rooted. Question: have any of you peeps with rooted Infuses checked if you are infected with CIQ?
-Duard.

**aapold** · 12-02-2011, 02:21 PM

I installed the logging checker.

The results read:

Starting Common Carrier IQ Activities...
Activity Start Test Complete. If nothing started main APK was not found.

******CIQ File List*****

CIQ Check Complete!

....

I guess this means it didn't find anything...

One of the other functions did find some common log directories, but they appeared tied to apps...

**Egidio** · 12-03-2011, 11:20 AM

Well, I just installed Carrier IQ Detector (from the Market). My Infuse does not the Carrier IQ app. Yeah! On the other hand, my partner's Epic (on Sprint) does.

**Duard** · 12-03-2011, 06:43 PM

thank you, Aapold and Egidio, that's a relief.

**aapold** · 12-03-2011, 07:52 PM

I should caveat that I'm running Infused (1.6). So that might not mean my phone didn't have it originally.

Egidio, are you running the stock rom?

**Egidio** · 12-03-2011, 08:32 PM

Yes, it's the stock rom, but rooted.

**Cranky** · 12-04-2011, 06:35 PM

I'm running the AT&T leaked KK4 with a rooted kernel. Mine shows positive for the CIQ.

Warning - Warning - Warning

Do not remove CIQ. It put my phone into a loop. Luckily I keep my phone backed up. After restoring, I again tried and the exact same thing happened, so I know that it wasn't a fluke.