Why would ANY app EVER send a text message from a phone without asking?
?? Especially when it costs the end user money!!!!
>> You have been asked during installation process and this setting is quite good described in manual, blog and support pages. Also here you can find similar questions..
Now even before the Sprint mess mentioned above another MAJOR issue I had is a month or two ago I had a friends cell added as my "friend" on the web site and the security app installed. I had issues with my phone texting him messages about my SIM card being removed and a security warning about the phone being stolen. I have Sprint, I don't even HAVE a SIM card! I never told the web site my phone was stolen!
MY PHONE WAS NOT STOLEN. No SIM card was removed as I could not do that if I wanted to, it has no removable SIM card!
>> Your vendor provides a SIMless phone to you, which means, that your IMSI is leased from his CDN and can be changed without your consent. Antitheft is exactly watching a SIM card change (IMSI change) - this is its basic feature - so as you set it antitheft provides you an information about IMSI change exactly as it should - it behaves as expected. In case your IMSI is changed very often, please contact your vendor (it can be caused by roaming f.e.). So your device was not stolen, but your SIM card number has been changed and you set you want to be informed about it and you want to know the new IMSI number and your friend will be informed by SMS.
That mess cost my friend about $35 in charges (which I had to pay him for) as he did not have unlimited texts!
This happened many times and I had issues trying to remove his number from the web site....
>> You can do it in the application itself, see "Friends" part.
I finally figured out what it was and had to re-install Avast to use the uninstall option and UN-installed the security app but the Sprint issue mentioned at the top STILL HAPPENED!!!! So the uninstall may not have worked after all!
Is there a removal tool that will completely remove this crap!!!!
>> Yes, it is and it is called (surprisingly) "Avast Anti-Theft removal wizard" and can be found in Avast Mobile Security > Antitheft. Removing Mobile security only does not affect Antitheft.
I will NEVER E V E R use an Avast product again.....
>> We are sorry about it, really, but your troubles are not an application mistake.