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Spy App

My family installed mSpy on my phone things have gotton bad because of them. Thank god for incognito spy detector was the only app that found it. But now I have unknown files on my phone. I am going to court with this. Opinions welcomed because I am going to go to court because they even put a spy app on my daughter's phone I was lending her iphone7 need help please feedback
 
Sounds like you might need a lawyer to sort this mess out.
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FYI, I'm pretty sure that the spying app you mentioned, does require someone to have physical unlocked access to your phone for it to be installed, and the device must be rooted as well
 
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Let this matter get settled in court. Anything you do from this point onward will most likely be a half-measure. Talk to your lawyer and hire a forensics expert to examine the phones in question. If you allowed someone else physical possession of your phone for an extended amount of time without you actually being there the entire time, there could be any number of things that were done to it, and depending on the resources and skill level of that other person it could be very problematic to find out exactly just what was modified or added if they don't want to cooperate.

You may have discovered some spyware using some app but there's no consumer app in existence anywhere that can have a 100% success rating at finding everything. At best some utilities might be able to find some exploits or vulnerabilities, others will be able to detect things that the others missed. Most anti-virus/anti-malware utilities are a lot of show and only a little tell, their biggest benefit is primarily peace of mind to the user.
 
Android Phones Forensic Expert.
Don't think that's a thing...

Well now that our culture has become so fixated on mobile devices, it's not just a big market for retailers but also a massive one for the repair and service industry. The fact is forensics has definitely expanded into areas like Android (currently with an 80%+ market share worldwide). Like with anything, finding a valid forensics shop is daunting task, just like finding a reliable car repair shop, or a good plumber, etc. Oddly a good source for info might be your local police. Law enforcement is really big into retrieving info off of seized phones so they'll have a pretty good handle on local shops that are good and not so good.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_device_forensics
 
First of all the these type of spy apps need physical access to install on any android device. 2nd thing is its totally illegal to install spyware without your previllage or of written consent. If you want to remove it from your phone then you need to hard-reset your device. It will remove all these type apps from your device. But if you want to presue it in court then keep the device same for techniqal proofs..

From a consumer standpoint, yes something like a hard-reset might clear up something like spyware. Some exploit installed into the OS itself at a system-level
Cops don't share with civilians in my neighborhood.
Nor in my circles. That's why you hire a lawyer to get things done.
 
First of all the these type of spy apps need physical access to install on any android device. 2nd thing is its totally illegal to install spyware without your previllage or of written consent. If you want to remove it from your phone then you need to hard-reset your device. It will remove all these type apps from your device. But if you want to presue it in court then keep the device same for techniqal proofs.
Well a hard-reset might fix things from a consumer-level standpoint but we do live in a harsh world. There are countless exploits at a professional level that won't be fixed by a Factory Reset or flashing the ROM -- i.e. firmware hacks that create and reside in their own partition (requiring a the internal storage to wiped at a block level), or even something as simple as a self-replicating worm added to a microSD card (not a part of a FR or a ROM re-flash).
Without more context none of us know what the overall situation with the OP might be. His/her family might have a lot of resources available to them so whatever is installed on those phones could be just off-the-shelf spyware apps or more elaborate, hard to detect much less remove exploits.
 
Sounds like you might need a lawyer to sort this mess out.
EDIT
FYI, I'm pretty sure that the spying app you mentioned, does require someone to have physical unlocked access to your phone for it to be installed, and the device must be rooted as well

Phones not rooted I don't believe I checked and it said. But I did see something that said root in systems file
 
I don't even have money for a lawyer I use to work for family and they didn't pay me just when I needed south g they would get it I guess thsy haven't let me grow up my way
 
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