Protecting against DreamDroid Exploit

[Guest Sean Jones]

After yesterday's malware excitement:

http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/03/01/th...-open-backdoor/

it seems that there is a relatively simple fix, namely

Finally, Justin notes that ROM developers working with pre-Gingerbread versions of Android can prevent the virus from backdooring in code by putting a dummy file at /system/bin/profile.

Perhaps Steve has already included this in streakdroid, if not maybe its something for the next version?

[Guest fards]

only really works against that exploit, and there are others..

but its simple enough to do, not in streakdroid as its a new thing...

touch /system/bin/profile 

chmod 644 /system/bin/profile