Tracking a phone and reading their messages - this app should be illegal!

15 seconds 15 seconds is all it takes to install a spy

tracking

app on someone's

phone

now that it's on the

phone

. I can get a copy of every message, every picture and track the phone's location in real time. The software is invisible on the phone unless you know it. where to look so grab your phone let me show you where to look before we get into

this

this

is the creeps website this is all the information that is collected from the moment they install the spice software on the phone so that, for example, here is everything. web history, so everything I typed on the phone on the right side is sent directly to the creep, including all the photos I take on that phone, they load, you have access to that and what about the keystrokes ?

Everything I write in the email. addresses password

messages

, all of that is just sent straight to the scoundrel, but wait, there's even more besides location history. It also takes screenshots of what your phone's screen looks like, including which apps you're logged into. This is the definition of an invasion of privacy and it's not okay, look, it's one thing to keep an eye on your child who just got

their

driver's license or keep an eye on an elderly parent who tends to wander and that's done with

their

permission, and another story is to watch someone. without his permission so you can read his private

messages

.

Now that you've seen how this works, let's reverse the steps that scoundrel would need to follow to install this type of application. First of all, in order for someone to track your phone, they will need physical access. your device, we know it's possible to trick someone into installing an update or, honey, check out this latest funny video, but let's be honest, it's a lot easier to grab someone's phone while they're in the shower or watching TV and on their pin , so if someone else really knows your phone's pin before the scoundrel can install the app on the phone, you need to do one thing: disable something called play protected.

This is Google's system that checks apps for malicious use. and prevent these dubious apps from installing in the first place, it is on by default, if it is off, there is an incredibly red flag on your phone, open settings, click on search and then just type play protected and then look for see if you have that option now, you can clearly see that on this particular Google Pixel phone it does not have playback protection. Some things will be slightly different on various phones, so I'll look into something called app security. Yeah it has that and then it says OK that looks good so that's already a positive sign but if you scroll down it says app security and under app security there is playback protection and you can clearly see that in this particular file is enabled if you disable the message.

A pop-up window will appear saying, "Hey, don't do this, so I'll leave mine enabled. Check yours right away. Okay, next let's check the feature that allows your phone to install these unknown apps. Go to settings and look at the search options then type there install unknown and we are looking for an option that looks like this install unknown apps and there is the option click on that and now we are going to go through the list of applications and we are going to look where it says out loud you can see here Chrome is allowed and what does this mean?

Well, it means you are telling your phone, hey, if Chrome wants to install some app, I'm okay with that, in your phone settings, click search and type your apps, we're not done with apps yet, we want to make sure that all the apps that are installed are actually legitimate Now as you scroll down you see an app that may or may not be legitimate, let's use this thing. called SmartThings, what are smart things, click on that app, click on the icon, scroll to the bottom until it says store and here it tells you where the app was installed, in this particular case Google Play Store, you can see this clearly.

It's a Samsung app, do this with apps you don't recognize to make sure the apps on your phone are legitimate, but here's the problem: a spyware app won't be called spyware or stock aware; it will remove it instantly if it sees something like this look at this, this app wants you to set the option to allow appearing on top of other apps now that we know what we can do is check our own services to see which apps can run on top of other apps so that we go back to the phone settings, we will click on search and write the screen about other applications.

Basically this is a feature that allows certain apps to run on top of other apps like The name now suggests these really legitimate reasons for this to be allowed but usually most apps will run on top of themselves and it's not necessary so check out the list of apps you have, is there anything that's allowed, like Google, because that's the operating system? It would be very strange if Lyft was allowed to be shown, let's say the Uber app, notice how the spyware was called, internet service, they will use names like Android servers or Google data collection or whatever name makes you wonder if you

should

or not .

Don't delete it if you're not sure if an app is supposed to be there, just Google to see if there was an app called Android System Intelligence. I don't know what that was. A simple Google search reveals that it is legitimate. Okay, let's check next. Put the battery back in the settings and in the search we will type your battery. Now this is very, very important. Spyware apps consume a lot of battery because they work constantly getting your GPS location constantly sending your texts and messages. Your photos go back to that server, so under your battery we have to go see what apps are running and how long they have been running for now, because because these apps are very sneaky, we have to check something called special access right In the settings, we click on search and write your special access or access to special applications depending on your phone.

Mine is access to special applications. I'm going to click on that and then when I go into that menu, I'll see something called all files. access now, this is essential, access old files access and then you will see some applications that have the permission allowed, like Adobe Acrobat, allow this application to read, modify and delete all the files on this device without your explicit knowledge, why what Adobe do you need? Not that, I'm going to turn it off now let's take a step back and scroll down until we see something called premium SMS. We're going to want to go to that menu now.

Premium SMS It can cost you money and it will add up. to your carrier bills essentially some of these apps put in premium SMS they send messages to themselves and then you get the bill they make money off of that I always set the guy to ask let's go back to the special app access , we'll scroll down to We'll see something called usage access that we'll click on. Now some things are allowed. Some things are not allowed. Let's see what it does. What it does is allow the app to track what other apps you are using. and how often, as well as carrier language settings and other details so we know that this particular app

should

have those permissions, but if your other apps have this permission, go and check yours, Reddit for example, definitely I shouldn't have it, so I'll disable it.

That goes back to the special access menu and we'll scroll down until we see something called Wi-Fi Control. Airbnb for some reason has permission allowed. What this does is allow Airbnb to turn my Wi-Fi scanning on or off. and connect to Wi-Fi networks add or delete networks or start a local hotspot just why does Airbnb need to be able to do that at all? I'm going to turn it off, so I'm going to go back to your special access folder and it'll go down to the bottom until it says turn on the display and click on that.

Now what does this do, let's look at a game called 1942, great game, but it has the ability to turn on, which means it can turn on my screen without my explicit intention. Why does a guy need to turn me on? screen on I'm going to turn that off immediately look I know it was a lot but it's important and remember that anything you've turned off can always be turned back on if something needs a certain thing that you turned off it will tell you so don't do it. Don't panic about doing something wrong in most cases the main operating system of the phone will not allow you to turn off anything that is absolutely necessary, remember how on the dashboard the scoundrel would see what we do on the phone and that is because that the app takes a lot of screenshots of our phone, sometimes these apps are stupid enough to leave those screenshots in the screenshots folder, so take a quick look and see if there are any screenshots that didn't take and as you saw the stock aware app sends all the information to the company so the stalker can see it on the dashboard and you know what that means that means data and let's go back to the settings we click on search and this time we're going to type in your data usage when that comes up, we're going to look for mobile data.

I'm going to tap on that and we're going to find a list of apps that are currently using my phone to send data. Now review that list. There is something? here that it doesn't recognize if your phone allows you to compare data usage month after month, see if in a given month you use a certain amount of data and in this month you have used 3 times that data, it's okay, some things go up and if your phone allows you to have a data warning set up, you definitely want to know that as soon as you reach a certain threshold, you need to get an alert because if you're not doing anything else than you normally would and you hit that limit right at the beginning of the month, well , something is definitely going on.

You have to check what it is and of course those creeps want to know where you are so let's make sure they don't have access to the location. You already know the procedure. Go to Settings. we're going to search and this time we're going to type in your location and we're going to type in a location and location is currently on for Google and the trial and all these other good reasons to have location on, we're going to go through recent access , what is using my location? I just want to do a quick scan, make sure that's everything I recognize now under that you have app location permission.

This is a list of all the apps you have allowed to use. your GPS location now, some of them are allowed all the time and some only when you are using the app. Review your list. Make sure those that are allowed all the time are actually allowed all the time. Something else you need. The thing to keep in mind is to use precise location, maybe I'm using my phone and my Fitbit, but do I need to know right now to the nth degree where I am or is there an approximate location, okay now under the location if ? you scroll down, you have location services now, in this particular case, I have earthquake and emergency alerts, so it's okay to be on, but the one I want to check is Google location sharing, does anyone else have access to where I am?

Nowadays, if there are and they shouldn't be there, delete them and speaking of location, we've all heard of those stories of air tags being used to track and trace people. If you have an iPhone, it will tell you that there is a random air tag nearby, but if you have an Android, then you need to do this to check for air tags. This time it's not search but Google Play Store. Let's look at something called tracker detection. Now the one above is a paid version I don't know which one we want it's the one called tracker detect and it's made by Apple it has this logo don't buy the wrong one this is absolutely free and it allows you to press the scan button and it will search for tags air near you, so here's an example.

I have an unknown airtag near me right now. We've covered a lot here but this is super critical, you wouldn't believe the amount of DMS I get from husband's wife's boyfriend's girlfriends saying the other half of her is harassing them. What's also scary is how many people have hidden cameras in the house, so watch this video here where I show you how to find hidden cameras. post this video here that YouTube thinks you should watch, hit the head here to subscribe and like the video before you leave and I'll see you in this video or this video or I'll see you in both. go