OK, there's odd.
This morning, at no prompting from myself, "Lookout", the a/v software that came pre-installed on my S6 popped up and told me that "Samsung Pay" - that came pre-installed on my S6, contained a Trojan. IT said it could intercept messages and forward them elsewhere.
It offered to remove the offending s/w. When I said "sure"* it regressed Samsung Pay to the as-shipped version.
Within seconds I received an SMS from teh bank saying they'd disconnected my credit card from Samsung Pay.
Spooky.
* - no loss - I only played with it because it was there and when it wouldn't link to the debit card which is the one I would be most likely to use with this payment method, I gave up on it. I had already linked it to this card, just to prove it was possible. Not sad to see the back of it, always popping up when I didn't really want it to.
This morning, at no prompting from myself, "Lookout", the a/v software that came pre-installed on my S6 popped up and told me that "Samsung Pay" - that came pre-installed on my S6, contained a Trojan. IT said it could intercept messages and forward them elsewhere.
It offered to remove the offending s/w. When I said "sure"* it regressed Samsung Pay to the as-shipped version.
Within seconds I received an SMS from teh bank saying they'd disconnected my credit card from Samsung Pay.
Spooky.
* - no loss - I only played with it because it was there and when it wouldn't link to the debit card which is the one I would be most likely to use with this payment method, I gave up on it. I had already linked it to this card, just to prove it was possible. Not sad to see the back of it, always popping up when I didn't really want it to.
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