![]() ![]() Installing the Trojanized app could result in higher texting bills, depending on the number of contacts in a victimized smartphone, and where those contacts lived. ![]() "What we care about is malware out there that takes personal info and incurs costs to users," he said. Steckler denied that AVAST will shortly release a security app for Android, or warned users of the malicious edition of Walk and Text for publicity. "It is a very sorry situation that AVAST is trying to provoke us in such a way," he said. ![]() Today, Tanmazov said he was "still looking into options" that included a lawsuit, but acknowledged that the route would be expensive. "But it's a common threat against security companies." "We haven't heard from any lawyers," said Steckler. Since then, Tanmazov has threatened to sue AVAST and accused the company of publicizing the Trojanized version of his app to promote its mobile security software. "You understand that if we do have logs those are text files that could be altered so this will also not prove anything."ĪVAST and Tanmazov have been at odds for more than a week, when AVAST blogged about the malicious version of Walk and Text that researchers found on the Internet. "The Web site is on a really cheap shared server and they delete stuff after three days I think," he said. When asked if he would share the logs, Tanmazov agreed, but said he wasn't sure that such logs exist. Steckler said that he has yet to see that proof, and called on Tanmazov to share his server logs. "There is also no personal information being saved on our servers and this could also easily be proven." "AVAST has indeed claimed there is a link to our servers, but there was no such file on our servers, and logs could probably prove this," said Tanmazov in an e-mail interview, also on Friday. Tanmazov flatly denied that he created the malicious version of Walk and Text. But from what we could see, yes, there was something there receiving the information." ![]() "Was there something receiving the information? said there was not. "It was very obvious that the information went to his URL," said Vincent Steckler, the CEO of AVAST in an interview Friday. ![]()
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