5 indirect signs that spyware is installed on your smartphone

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

E-thieves, jealous spouses, and even government agencies are the main list of those who might care about your personal life. Check if someone is trying to access your data via a smartphone.

1. Fast battery discharge

A couple of weeks after purchasing a smartphone is enough to understand how long the battery will last on a typical day. Over time, this interval will decrease due to natural loss of capacity and new background applications. However, these factors do not hurt to notice that the battery suddenly begins to discharge unnaturally quickly. The culprit may be spy trackers that do not sleep for a minute and eat up the charge using GPS.

2. Unexpected heating of the case

Even the leading smartphone makers are not immune to engineering errors that cause the case to overheat while gaming, high-performance computing or charging. This is quite normal considering the power hidden in them. It's another matter if the smartphone, even in standby mode, makes itself felt with light heat through the pocket. Probably behind the screen is malware with a great appetite for hardware resources.

3. Fast traffic consumption

The preview of images in the Twitter feed was turned off a long time ago, we post photos in VK exclusively from home, and we can afford Coub only with free Wi-Fi. At the same time, the traffic is melting before our eyes, it is barely enough for three weeks, although it used to live up to the end of the month. Is it time to part with the thieving mobile operator who has nagged something to lure you into a more expensive tariff plan? Most likely, it won't help, because there is malware on the smartphone that constantly collects and sends data to the side.

4. Frequent speaker problems

You shouldn’t have poked your new smartphone into the damn subway. Someone was very jealous and brought the "subway" to the new thing - a terrible damage, because of which the speaker sounds as if from a pipe. Although sometimes the symptoms are different: digital noise, voice delay, beeps and echoes. Not every repairer will return the sound to its original purity, especially if they don't realize that the problem is in unwanted recording software.

5. Unreasonable reboots

The smartphone turned off in the middle of the movie - so what? This is better than a lunchtime shame in front of colleagues when I showed them CyanogenMod tricks and caught a reboot out of the blue. We'll go to bed, and tomorrow we won't even remember this misunderstanding. But sleep will not help if an uninvited guest has settled on the phone, due to which the gadget catches strange bugs: it does not respond to commands, throws it out of applications, issues incomprehensible warnings and simply quits.