Virus on Android tablet?

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Hi,
A client of mine couldn’t send e-mails anymore.
Her IP was blacklisted by Spamhouse.
Found out it was her Sony android tablet.
Switched wifi off and within hours the IP was released by Spamhouse.
I have the notebook at my house but am anxious to connect it to the internet.
Anyone having thoughts about how to handle?
Will google the problem (not with the tablet :D) and let you know when there’s a solution.

TIA
Sjors

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Just out of interest, how did you find out it was her tablet?

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Ha, not very helpfull but nevertheless:
-not on spamhaus anymore
-later she told me about a virus message that had popped up but she ignored

oh well, users……………..

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I’m not exactly sure what you are asking. If you suspect that the tablet has a virus on it, you should be able to rest the tablet to factory settings; I know my ASUS Eee Transformer has that option. That might be the best thing as I don’t know of any apps that could clean up a virus on a tablet. (BTW, I’m answering this on my tablet)

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Hi,
As I said I didn’t suspect the tablet had a virus, but Android popped-up with the message Virus found (or the like).
And the IP of the client was blocked by Spamhaus. A few hours after I disabled wifi on the tablet, the blocking was suspended.
And I already set it back to factory settings and installed free AVG-app.
Just read Google also published an security app to block malicious apps.
Guess I’ll install that too.

tnx
Sjors

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Unlikely that IPs are removed from the blacklist that quickly – you usually need to complain to the blacklister. I suspect coincidence.

cheers, Paul

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I was surprised with that too. Oh well, guess we’ll never know.

Sjors

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If you want to remove virus from android tablet, you need to do factory reset, it get delete all your viruses, applications, contacts. Other option is to delete useless applications.

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tnx. As I stated before: that’s what I did.

greetings,
Sjors

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