Should the "Permission Controller" be showing the downloads folder inside the file marked apps.
My mother has a CAT phone,Model s42h system info in settings says the OS is linux and doesnt give any further information about the specific software setup ( that i could see. I dont have the phone in front of me right now ~ just going based on memory of what i looked at last night) Ive never seen a phone not list an OS version before but I guess it could be normal cuz it doesnt list it and its not like Im all that experienced in phone programs to argue it...
Anyway the purpose I had to examin the phone info in the first place was this; My mother has had a whole lot of fraud happen in the last 6 months. no matter what she does or how many times she contacts companies regarding the situation it keeps happening to the point that shes calling her financial institutions to fix her personal demographic info on a daily basis. she closes and account and an alert is sent that her address changed or whatever on another. The only account this hasnt happened to is the phone account and the phone account is in my name not hers.
So I started thinking maybe someone downloaded a keylogger in her phone since the only thing never touched was the account that never gets addressed by anyone using that phone.
so i looked it up on google how to detect keylogger and it says to go through the phone downloaded files and see if anything looks off or unfamiliar.
So I go through the phone and notice the weird OS system info but I know everything basically boils down to linux so I didnt get stuck on it;
I go in to the download folder as directed and she really doesnt have anything in there at all. Aside from 4 videos i took myself she has nothing except for a few in the folder marked apps.
Inside a very short list of about 9 things but all things i would see on my own phone in the same folder and recognize as normal EXCEPT for the very last one. This one is showing up with nothing more than the lil green android guy
we know reps android but hes not green and is a bit different ( cant tell you why but looks weird)
its labeled "Permission Controller" I open it and its pretty generic inside, says it has access to all and has no denied permissions and I dont remember everything it listed but I do remember that the list of things it shows it has access to didnt drop down to a loooong ol list I usually see when I need to authorize use on my own phone.
PLUS+ I also noiced that the Builder Options ( tap 6xs to find options) were already open. I asked my boyfriend if he open them when he was helping her with her phone and he says he cant remember doing it but he says he wouldnt jump to conclusions about it because its always a possibility.
I know it wasnt my mother, she can barely get lock off the password screen the majority of the time let alone find the knock code to the secret door in the settings.
Based on this info,
+Do you think that I found the spyware program that used to get into my mothers accounts ?
+If so, based on what Ive described would it have been a program downloaded by someone with access to the physical phone or would it have been something she clicked on from an outside sender?
+and how do I go about uninstalling it?
If I just try to uninstall it the way I normally uninstall an app or delete a download will it delete the phones OS or anything it needs in order to boot up afterwards?
My mother has a CAT phone,Model s42h system info in settings says the OS is linux and doesnt give any further information about the specific software setup ( that i could see. I dont have the phone in front of me right now ~ just going based on memory of what i looked at last night) Ive never seen a phone not list an OS version before but I guess it could be normal cuz it doesnt list it and its not like Im all that experienced in phone programs to argue it...
Anyway the purpose I had to examin the phone info in the first place was this; My mother has had a whole lot of fraud happen in the last 6 months. no matter what she does or how many times she contacts companies regarding the situation it keeps happening to the point that shes calling her financial institutions to fix her personal demographic info on a daily basis. she closes and account and an alert is sent that her address changed or whatever on another. The only account this hasnt happened to is the phone account and the phone account is in my name not hers.
So I started thinking maybe someone downloaded a keylogger in her phone since the only thing never touched was the account that never gets addressed by anyone using that phone.
so i looked it up on google how to detect keylogger and it says to go through the phone downloaded files and see if anything looks off or unfamiliar.
So I go through the phone and notice the weird OS system info but I know everything basically boils down to linux so I didnt get stuck on it;
I go in to the download folder as directed and she really doesnt have anything in there at all. Aside from 4 videos i took myself she has nothing except for a few in the folder marked apps.
Inside a very short list of about 9 things but all things i would see on my own phone in the same folder and recognize as normal EXCEPT for the very last one. This one is showing up with nothing more than the lil green android guy
we know reps android but hes not green and is a bit different ( cant tell you why but looks weird) its labeled "Permission Controller" I open it and its pretty generic inside, says it has access to all and has no denied permissions and I dont remember everything it listed but I do remember that the list of things it shows it has access to didnt drop down to a loooong ol list I usually see when I need to authorize use on my own phone.
PLUS+ I also noiced that the Builder Options ( tap 6xs to find options) were already open. I asked my boyfriend if he open them when he was helping her with her phone and he says he cant remember doing it but he says he wouldnt jump to conclusions about it because its always a possibility.
I know it wasnt my mother, she can barely get lock off the password screen the majority of the time let alone find the knock code to the secret door in the settings.
Based on this info,
+Do you think that I found the spyware program that used to get into my mothers accounts ?
+If so, based on what Ive described would it have been a program downloaded by someone with access to the physical phone or would it have been something she clicked on from an outside sender?
+and how do I go about uninstalling it?
If I just try to uninstall it the way I normally uninstall an app or delete a download will it delete the phones OS or anything it needs in order to boot up afterwards?
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