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Consumer Products => Avast Mobile Apps => Avast Anti-Theft for Android => Topic started by: ogrfnkl on November 26, 2015, 06:38:09 AM
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I have installed Avast Anti-theft on my Cyanogenmod 12.1 Galaxy S4. During the installation, I did set up the cloaking app name, but it appears that there is still a way that a thief can identify this app -- by going to Settings>Manage Apps and selecting the cloaked app, and then, on the app settings screen, right under the app name, it says "app.avast.android.antitheft". I would imagine that a savvy thief would have the sense to go through the app list after a factory reset to see if there is something that might still spy on him/her, don't you think? Is there a way to change the name of the app directory to ensure that it truly avoids detection?
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Hi,
no as this is not a name of the directory, but a package name of the app. It must uniquely identify an app in the whole Android ecosystem and therefore can't be changed upon user request.
Filip
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Ok, thanks for the reply... So, there is basically no way to completely cloak the app?
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Not really, unless it's built-in into the system itself. And even after that there will always be ways to identify it, it's just gonna get harder.
Filip
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savvy thieves will just reflash a full rom and then anti theft is gone, no matter how it was installed.
dumb / average thieves wont notice the cloaked app I'm sure.