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It is a common phenomenon to purchase value-added services in mobile applications. Value-added services include a wide range of content, such as content services, entertainment, games, SMS, MMS, WAP ringtones, downloads, business information and positioning information services. Usually we use the form of sending SMS to buy value-added services with phone calls ...
However, in the mobile phone security, the use of this customized value-added services, private send SMS malicious deduction of the behavior is widespread, the following we introduce the malicious deduction of the harmful behavior.
In peacetime mobile applications, we often customize some value-added services. What about the process of customizing value-added services?
below we subscribe to MMS business as an example, describe its general process:
First of all we will be based on the application of the prompts to send customized MMS business SMS to value-added service numbers, and then the operator will send a fee for the purchase of the "confirmation message", at this time if the receipt "confirmation", then the operator will deduct the charges, customized corresponding value-added services.
However, the cunning of the mobile phone virus on the flow above the brain. Many infected applications are unknowingly customized value-added services, but we do not know, and so on, after a period of time, in amazement at the exhaustion of phone calls to find themselves inexplicably customized some of the monthly service.
For example, some virus-infected applications, when we click on the software icon to enter, the program will automatically send custom value-added services in the background SMS to the designated number, but at this time the application is all normal display, it is difficult to find. And after a while, when we look at custom services, we find that there are a few more services that we haven't customized at all. In this process, is the program itself to block out the operator to send us the "confirmation message", "help" We sent a "confirmed" message to the operator.
In entertainment, games and other mobile applications, such as the purchase of props and coins is a very common value-added services, the application will be through the very obvious icon or text to inform us that the service will be sent by the form of SMS, deduct the amount of money to buy the services we need. Under normal circumstances, the purchase of the interface after the confirmation will be deducted the corresponding charges for the purchase of props. However, some game applications drilled such a loophole, inducing us to click on the purchase.
For example, the following game, it will often pop up some of the task dialog box, but we inadvertently will pop up a button to buy Items dialog box, if you are careless click OK, after a while you will find that your message inbox will receive a fee has been deducted SMS. As shown in the following illustration:
So how do you try to avoid this? First of all, should be as far as possible to the formal and large-scale software market download software, followed by the installation of professional mobile phone security software to control the transmission of text messages and to confirm the interception of SMS and other risk behaviors, to avoid malicious deduction of the harmful behavior of the charges, to cause unnecessary economic losses to us!