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Beware of Spyware in your Blackberry SmartPhone!
Last Updated on Wednesday, 22 July 2009 07:40
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United Arab Emirates Blackberry users began to experience a drastic drop in battery life after they updated a firmware pushed to them from the major carrier of UAE, Etisalat.

The new firmware was supposed to “improve” the smartphone performance. It didn’t, but did help the malicious ware within to spy on user activities. According to a blog acomplia Drugstore buy cheap online post on Dutch levitra costs Web site Automation Guide, cheap ampicillin RIM explained western union washington tacoma that it seems that Etisalat had distributed a telecommunications surveillance application that was designed and developed by a California based company called SS8, in another word, the update was not written by RIM.

SS8 develops communications surveillance products for law enforcement. The SS8′s application that was put into the UAE BlackBerries will send received messages from the user back to a central Buy Viagra server. This information Buy Levitra was confirmed by Research In Motion(RIM), the BlackBerries maker on Tuesday, who offered a “spyware removal” firmware in response.

So far, we had yet to receive Silagra any “real” response from Viagra online deals href=”http://viagra-online-price.net”>viagra female SS8. And as for Etisalat, they only said that is a “slight technical online amoxil fault” and subscribers can uninstall the update by pressing 101 on their phones.

Maybe in the near future, we may need to purchase an optional “spyware removal” apps for our smartphones.




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