Phone Anti-theft apps

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[SIZE=6]Cerberus anti-theft Android app review[/SIZE]
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Cerberus lets you see your phone’s location on a map, as well as details about it
By Matt Warman, Consumer Technology Editor
9:18AM BST 04 Oct 2012

[SIZE=5]Cerberus is a powerful security tool that lets you remotely monitor or wipe your phone – it’s invaluable if your device gets stolen or lost.[/SIZE]
[B]Android; €2.99 (in-app)[/B]

As mobile phones get more powerful, and generally more like computers, the issues of security and how to combat viruses become more and more important. But it remains a moot point as to whether antivirus software is still really necessary for a mobile phone: how many people have you met whose phone has yet been troubled by a virus, even if they own the Android devices that are universally acknowledged to be more vulnerable than iOS. Obviously, it’s better not to wait for the worst, but there’s still debate as to how closely consumers should listen to antivirus companies saying that antivisrus software is essential for every mobile.

Of much more pressing concern is physical security: phones get lost or stolen every day, and theft of Apple products now account for 14 per cent of all crime in New York, according to NYPD. With the release of the new iPhone 5, it surged 40 per cent.

Little wonder, then that Kaspersky’s latest security software was trending on Twitter recently after it released details of its new facility to take photographs remotely: log on to your stolen phone and, ideally, take pictures of who is now using it and where they are. You can additionally even check whether the sim card has been replaced, as well as remotely wipe the device. It’s a major extension of the kind of ‘Find my iPhone’ technology that locates that popular device on a map.

In the UK the latest Kasperky Mobile is £8.95, but rival app Cerberus delivers much of its functions, minus the antivirus, for a lifetime cost of €2.99 and offers a free trial for a week. It offers remote control of your lost phone either via the web or text messages and means you can remote sound an alarm, lock the device, get a list of recent calls and record audio. Some may worry that this sounds like a tracking device for suspicious spouses, but it has already been responsible for countless recovered phones. If antivirus is a priority for you, it won’t be a solution, of course, but it’s certainly an impressive product in its own right

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What if someone custom resets the phone? Will the tracker still be available?

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It had wires into the phone. Then hides itself from the apps.

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This app is awesome. First, cerberus will not allow reset using a comp, assuming the thief was able to go past the lockscreen and will have taken videos and pics of the thief and send to you. If rooted, the app can be converted to a system App and survive resets. In a nutshell you continue controlling and giving instructions to the phone as if it’s in your hands

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I always ask myself this question! But I also wonder what can happen if you factory reset the phone, just as @cloe is saying.

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I use cerberus. Been using it for the past year. Best way to use it is to make it a system app if you have root. When this is done a factory reset wont remove it only a rom flash can. Halafu I like how it hides from app launchers. To open it you use dialpad

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how do you set an app to be system app

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I use blackberry protect, if you loose the phone, just login online and send a command to wipe out the phone and permanently lock it.

Losing a phone is normal, important thing is to ensure any private and/or confidential data that might have been on the phone does not end up in the wrong hands

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Thet App gives instructions on how to do that.

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apan tambua hiyo security just flash a new ROM and edit imei

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Kencell?! :confused:

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Yes. I use Kencell

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But you have to go past the locked screen which cerberus doesn’t make easy! Also, you can’t switch the phone off from the locked screen!
By the way, you can download cerberus on your phone and give it a try for yourself! They give you a week for free trial before you pay!

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the thief will just wait for the phone to run out of battery and go off or even pull out the battery if it is removable

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Bottom line is that it won’t be easy for him to use the phone the way it is! Atauza spares labda!

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Any phone except iPhone and Nokia can be flashed. Ni hayo tu kwa sasa.

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The best thing is that you should never lock your homescreen. Just lock the sensitive apps like gmail and others. Mwizi akiiba hatafikiria stori za kuflash kwanza, so my 360 app will just automatically send a message to me when simcard is changed. halafu nampea time kwanza ainjoy then i plan on how to catch them after i pinpoint their location with the 360 locator.

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try androidlost…free

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I also use BlackBerry…i have a question though have you successfully patched an app…tinder inanisumbua sana…

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i side loaded google play store, so i can run any native android app on it

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