Help I need serious help, which theses are modified by someone, can you explain theses and do ask more infos

[teemukarjalainenPhone]

1. Manufacturer - (Samsung)
2. Model - (SM-A530F)
3. Software version - (says 9.0)
4. Specifics of the problem - this probably is rooted so Someone could connect to this phone and download info/pics/voices maybe even see cam.
5. Specify if the phone is rooted. If you don't know then it probably isn't
- this phone says enforcing and doesnt find Anu Updates for it. Even clearing out.

 

[teemukarjalainenPhone]

Help me out here ??

 

[Hadron]

Is the phone rooted or is it not? Why do you think it might be? Have you tried to check? Why do you think you have a problem? This is the most important question, why is it that you think there is a problem? You've not provided any information to explain that.

I don't know what you think we can tell you from a bunch of screenshots of apps on your phone. Most of those I recognise as completely standard things. Nobody will ever recognise every app on someone else's phone, so I don't think there's anything else I can say.

Being rooted doesn't itself mean that someone else can connect to the phone. It does mean that if you installed malware on it(*) then it's easier for that malware to gain privileged access.

(*) "If you installed malware on it" because malware can't install itself, it requires the user to install it. Sometimes this happens because the malware is hidden inside another app, but that is much more rare than people think, so as long as you are moderately sensible about what apps you install this is very unlikely.

"The phone says enforcing": what does it say it is enforcing? You need to give the full information, not skip bits. Though my guess is "SE enforcing", i.e. "security enhancement enforcing", which is a good sign rather than a bad one.

No updates is not a surprise and not suspicious: this is a low-end phone from 2017, so it would be remarkable if Samsung were still issuing updates for it 6 years later. And it's already on Android 9, which is the last Android version that was released for that phone. So I would not expect there to be any updates.

 

[Dannydet]

Hadron basically answered your questions.
Hey if you're that paranoid you can always flash a stock rom for your device.

 

[teemukarjalainenPhone]

Hadron basically answered your questions.
Hey if you're that paranoid you can always flash a stock rom for your device.

I'm feeling seriously paranoid about this phone...can phone do like when u do format so can ne malwqmare stay in phone? What u saa? I have serious feeling someone connect time 2 time so he could see phone and whats virtualkeyboard

 

[Hadron]

If all you have is a "feeling" then you probably are just being paranoid.

You can do a "factory reset". That will erase all user-installed apps and all of your data from the phone (make sure you have backups of anything important first). So if there is a malicious app installed that will remove it provided the app has not been installed to the /system partition. A factory reset does not alter the system in any way (e.g. it does not undo system updates), and so if someone managed to install malware to the system it will survive a factory reset. However you need administrator access to install an app to the system, so unless the phone is rooted that's not possible. And a phone like this cannot be rooted remotely: you need physical access to the phone and a computer to do that, if it's even possible at all (not all Samsungs can be rooted). Therefore it's not terribly likely that this has happened.

Be aware that if you do decided to do a factory reset out of excessive caution you need to know your Google login username and password (I find it amazing, but some people don't remember or keep a record of their passwords, some don't even know the username). An anti-theft system called "factory reset protection" will require that you enter your Google login credentials after a factory reset before you can use the phone again, so if you don't know those do not reset the phone as you won't be able to use it again if you do (you can remove your account before resetting, which will avoid factory reset protection, but if you don't know how to log into it again you won't be able to restore your current apps, contacts etc, so either way you need to know your Google account information).

And of course if you restore apps afterwards be careful you don't restore the malware in the process (if there is any malware in the first place, which you've not provided any evidence of).

As Danny has said, if you reflash the system software that will overwrite the system, which means that even if you had malware installed to the system it would be removed (and if the phone had been rooted it would no longer be). That won't remove any malware that's installed as ordinary user apps unless the phone is reset as part of the process, so to be completely certain you need both.

But if you do genuinely have a problem you need to make sure that your accounts, especially your Google account, are secure first. If someone has hacked your account there's no point wiping the phone clean, and it's easier to hack an account than a phone (particularly if people use passwords that are simple enough to remember and don't use 2-factor authentication).

 

[teemukarjalainenPhone]

I have posted pics,ei u guys hs tell me...on 100% sure ite motified. No MATTER HOW MANY NORMAL FACTORY RESET I DO AND CHANGE GMAIL WHEN I SPEAK WITH PPL SOME REASON PPL WHO CANR KNOW WHAT IV BEEN SAYING I KEEP GETTING ANNOIYNG THINGS FRON PPL AS THEY KNEW ALREADY WHAT I WAS TALKING AND I THOUGHT I GET HELP HERE..NOT PPL WHOS DONT THINK THAT IM TURTHRULLY. I CANT SEEM SHAKEAWAY THIS SHIT. I GOR THIS PHONE FROM GUY WHO KNOWN TO DO THESES KINDA OD RHINGS. ALL I WANNA KNOW HOW TO RESET THIS OR DO I JUST GO INTO POLICE AND LET THEM TO FIGURE THIS SHIT OUT..22. IF ANYONE NOT GIVEN ME ANYSORT EXPLAIN HOW TO GET RID OFF ILL JUST THROW IT POLICE WHY WOULD PPL OTHERWAY KEEP FOLLOWING MY CURRWNT POSITION.I BURN ALL ****ERS ALONG. LIKE 2WEEK AGO I SAID ITS STRANGE THERE IS NO UPDATES TOOK 4DAYS AND NOW PHONE ADDES "KIDS" SOMETHING AND NOW IT HAS NEW UPDATE (16MONTH) NO UPDATES BWFORE I SAID ITS ODD..NOW ITS OFFERING ONE. OUT OD THE BLUE IF NONE. ALSO PHONE WONT LET ME USE FACTORY RESET BY USING KEYS LIKE ALL OTHERS. BATTERY SUDDENLY DIES 80-10 AND DIES WITHIN 10MIN AND NETFLIX STOPS YET OTHRRD WORKS. DONT SAY SHIT THIS IS NOT COMPROMISED NORMAL FACTORY RESET WONT GET IT OFF AND WHY IT SAYS ENFORCING IN THAT OLD PIC I WANNA SOME OLD ACCOUNT USER TO PM ANSWERS. PPL LISTENING AND STUFF...IDC DO U BELIEVE ME BUT IF NOT THEN POLICE wILL GO 4 CHECK ATLEAST WHOEVER IN DRUG PPL CHECKS ME GOTTA KILL SERVER

 

[teemukarjalainenPhone]

Phone is probably rooted. I Boucht this för 40e from ppl WHO spy oli thru phone can ne proofd

 

[teemukarjalainenPhone]

This phone is sold me CHEAP AND YES THEY HAD 1MONTH TO DO SHIT WITH IT. THEY COULD DO STUFF I CANT EVEN COMPREHAND

 

[teemukarjalainenPhone]

ALL suden phone added samsung kids tjing this was not there 3week aro AND I didnt update cause there was no update..Seems best Wau to kilo Internet AND phone and GO to POLICE AND explain ALL and turn phone OFF cause on sure this is just top of iceberg

 

[teemukarjalainenPhone]

That second ip comes ysyallu WHEN U SHARE INTERNET BUT I DID NOT.

 

[Hadron]

It's not that people thought you weren't truthful, just that you hadn't posted anything that suggested that you had a problem. And we do get many people who convince themselves that they have a problem for no reason at all.

There is one obvious question: if you bought the phone cheap, second-hand, from people who "are known" to plant spyware, then why on Earth did you buy it?

Anyway if you think something has been planted in the system there is only one way to be sure: note down the exact model of your phone (Settings > About > model name, not just "Galaxy whatever"), then go to Sammobile.com and download the official firmware for that model. There will be instructions there for flashing it (you'll need a computer). That will overwrite everything in the system, whereas a factory reset will do nothing at all to system apps. Then change all of your account passwords and enable 2 factor authentication on them all, because if you have used a compromised phone to connect to them it's possible someone also has your login details. And be careful not to reinstall any dodgy apps after all of this.

 

[mikedt]

Well why did you buy the thing then?