First of all, I would like to apologize for my bad English. I am from Germany and my English is not really good . Unfortunately, there is no community or support in German. So I hope to find help here.
A few days ago, I installed Sophos Mobile Security on my Android Smartphone. I had some other scanner before, but no virus or trojan was has been found so far.
Now, Sophos Mobile Security founds the following threat:
SmsReg Andr/Gedma-A
According to the sophos website it is a trojan. More information are given here
The side was updated in Dec. 2014 09:02:26. The link for "free Virus Removal Tool" guides me to a Windows-compatible version, but no Android-version is available.
Yesterday I made a reset to the factory defaults, but the first scan after the new installation founds the threat again.
I detected some articles in internet platforms which say that obviously some new smartphones arme already delivered with the installed trojan. For example in chinese smartphones. My smartphone is a Wiko Barry.
How can I delete this threat? How dangerous may it be?
I would really appreciate your help. Thank you very much for your help. And again: I am very sorry for my English...
Hello Thomas, Thank you for your help. I have just deactivated the App. I assume that the threat was alrealy installed when I bought the smartphone ohne year ago. Until now, nothing "Bad" has happened. So I hope that it will stay like this.
What if this malware did NOT come with the device? I don't know if it did or not. How would I know?I have disabled it through my app settings, but would rather remove it, if possible. Sophos only has a Windows removal tool, even though it says it is for Android until you find download and instructions pages.
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