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minus-squareEvilcoleslaw@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up37·1 year ago and a separate little Android TV box I got from AliExpress for 25 bucks were I only use Kodi. Yeah, so you may not be seeing ads, but there’s a non-zero chance you have a botnet infested device on your network instead.
minus-squaresquidspinachfootball@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoIs there a way to check if the little Android box you already have is one of these infected devices?
minus-squareEvilcoleslaw@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoHere’s the GitHub repo of a software developer that was one of the first to find this, and I think the first to make it really public. It has some info on how to tell and possible steps to do some cleanup. https://github.com/DesktopECHO/T95-H616-Malware
Yeah, so you may not be seeing ads, but there’s a non-zero chance you have a botnet infested device on your network instead.
Is there a way to check if the little Android box you already have is one of these infected devices?
Here’s the GitHub repo of a software developer that was one of the first to find this, and I think the first to make it really public. It has some info on how to tell and possible steps to do some cleanup.
https://github.com/DesktopECHO/T95-H616-Malware