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Consumer Products => Avast Mobile Security => Avast Mobile Security for Android => Topic started by: Gibraltar on February 01, 2012, 12:23:48 AM

Title: SMS sent to lost phone are billed on the lost phone???
Post by: Gibraltar on February 01, 2012, 12:23:48 AM

Hi,

I've just installed Avast Mobile Security and I've been testing the SMS commands. I noticed that when I send a SMS to the lost phone that SMS is being billed on the lost phone?? Is this normal? What is going on? I was under the impression that these were "normal" SMS and like all the others would be billed to the phone sending the SMS.
Am I missing something?

thank you.

Title: Re: SMS sent to lost phone are billed on the lost phone???
Post by: Gibraltar on February 01, 2012, 10:36:07 AM

I think I just read somewhere that Avast relies on the sim credit to send SMS replies (location, etc). If this is true what would happen if someone stole my phone and inserted a new sim without credit? Would the phone still be able to reply to SMS commands?

Title: Re: SMS sent to lost phone are billed on the lost phone???
Post by: Werner on February 01, 2012, 10:44:33 AM

Hello,

you are right - we need the phone's credit to send the reply sms. if a sim card without credit is inserted it cannot reply to your commands.

Title: Re: SMS sent to lost phone are billed on the lost phone???
Post by: Gibraltar on February 01, 2012, 01:15:33 PM

Ok, thanks for clearing that up. It is my understanding that this "limitation" will be minimized with the introduction of the webfront, right?