Avast Anti-Theft send SMS to Czech Republic

[pesapower]

Hi,

I have a problem, why Avast Anti-Theft send (every week, more or less) a SMS to a number of Czech Republic (the phone number is 420720001669)
each SMS to Czech Republic cost me 0,30€ !

[reinhardholzner]

it seems you've run into a bug that occurs not very often in the current public version.
we will release an update this week which will fix this.
i am sorry for this inconvenience!

[pesapower]

Ok, thank you!

[AvastATuser]

I'm having the same problem. It has send 3 text messages to this nummer.
Costing me a total of €0.75!

Is there a work-around we can use to prevent more costs untill the update comes out?

[reinhardholzner]

unpair your device from the account (in the Anti-Theft UI) and then pair it again.

[jasonsf]

I also found a charge from Aug 21 2012 for this on my phone bill. I'll un-pair and re-pair my account and wait for the update.

[pesapower]

What is the update status?

[Lisandro]

What is the update status?

I cannot speak officially, as I'm not from the development team, but seems next week or so.

[rmuzdzak]

Refering to this topic... Is it possible, that apart from sending SMS to Czech Republic, Anti-Theft sends it also to a number (in this case, my girlfriend's) I've indicated as a number from which a can send SMS with specific commands for instance, activating Siren? Yesterday something sent from my phone 4 messages to Czech Republic and about 30 messages(!!) to my girlfriend's number (according to my billing). All between 22:46 and 22:48. Luckily all these SMSs have cost of 0.00 in my billing. My girlfriend didnt received these 30 messages (they were only visible in my billing). What do you think?

UPDATE: All messages were free in my billing, because a had no money on my pre-paid account that evening... I'll let you know if my operator get money for these messages after I add funds to account. Previous SMSes sent from my phone (September, 21) were paid.

[reinhardholzner]

issues with SMS sending have been fixed in the newest update. please check.

[pesapower]

for the moment there are not problems 

[Jelon]

As I didn't wanted to start new topic. Here it comes again:
1. On the SIM card that was registered as a first one configured the Avast app.
2. I did a Anti Theft set up
3. Changed the SIM card for another one that I use to check if everything works
4. All the functions worked so I have switched the 1st SIMcard back in
5. Then logged in to check my billing on mobile provider's website

What I have noticed my 1st card was not charged but the second one (lets say thieve's card) had already sent two messages to that Czechs number within 4 minutes.

Did anybody had that issue since last post here (05.10.2012) ?

[Chi.qui]

I installed avast on my mobile.
I wanted to test the theft function. But this was a little bit of a trap. This cost me now quite a lot of money.
In 5 seconds 5 SMS were sent (in total over 40 SMS).
The worst: also to CZ number 420720001669 (I haven't read anything about this...)
I think this is a little bit to buggy!

[reinhardholzner]

if there is an untrusted SIM (second card), it is OK that avast sends SMS to our server.

As I didn't wanted to start new topic. Here it comes again:
1. On the SIM card that was registered as a first one configured the Avast app.
2. I did a Anti Theft set up
3. Changed the SIM card for another one that I use to check if everything works
4. All the functions worked so I have switched the 1st SIMcard back in
5. Then logged in to check my billing on mobile provider's website

What I have noticed my 1st card was not charged but the second one (lets say thieve's card) had already sent two messages to that Czechs number within 4 minutes.

Did anybody had that issue since last post here (05.10.2012) ?

[reinhardholzner]

what exactly did you do?
PS: you'll get warned in a SEPARATE dialog box about the SMS when you register to the account. you need to read! :-)

I installed avast on my mobile.
I wanted to test the theft function. But this was a little bit of a trap. This cost me now quite a lot of money.
In 5 seconds 5 SMS were sent (in total over 40 SMS).
The worst: also to CZ number 420720001669 (I haven't read anything about this...)
I think this is a little bit to buggy!