Help Possible virus?

[andrews317]

This week I borrowed my Inspire to my brother for a whole day (as a promise after he helped me with a serious problem). When I received it back, I found some games he downloaded from market, but I also found a weird app named something like "Sexy pics from my ex-gf". He told me that the description said it was from a mad dude who's gf cheated on him and that he was taking revenge by uploading +18 pics from her, but it was a lie.

So I deleted it because my gf would kill me if she finds that on my phone. After I deleted this app, my phone froze for a while until it automatically rebooted. After reboot, there was this message to send a report to HTC and I sent it. Since that (2 days ago), my phone starts giving me some problems with the touch input. When i'm on a website or using menus, I can slide the windows up and down or left to right, but I can't tap into a single icon as an app or a link on the web browser. I have to lock the phone and unlocked it back to be able to "click" on something. It happens randomly, maybe five times a day.

I'm worried that this app had some virus and my phone is infected. I have an antivirus app but its a free version, the AVG. Let me know your comments please.

P.S. Should I kill my brother?

 

[DanielRicany]

Don't worry this is normal. This can happen because the digitizer malfunctions a little, or because there are too many processes running. In our state of intellect in technology, we have not yet overcome a completely stable digitizer. What you can do to stop the running processes part, is go to Settings > Applications > Running services and find the one that you don't need and uninstall the application of which the process belongs to. If you can't find it, you can wipe the phone and start over as a fresh phone. Go to Settings > SD & Phone storage and click Factory data reset. Follow the instructions and you will be back to a factory fresh phone.

 

[andrews317]

Thanks man, you saved my brother's life.

I use the App Killer to avoid having unwanted apps running, but sometimes I find out some apps running when I haven't openned them. Sometimes Maps is running, or a game a downloaded called E. Warriors. I kill them and after an hour I check again and they are running.

 

[DanielRicany]

If you check the permissions on them, those apps that run after you close them should have something similar to an auto-run permission. This means that they can start on their own, usually due to the app installing a launch daemon, which obviously, can LAUNCH something. These are background processes that are always running and are exclusive to UNIX and BSD based operating systems.