What do you know, she was using the infected version. The phone had slowed down significantly and would heat up even when the user was just chatting in FM WhatsApp. Who knows how many more were being displayed in the background. I met someone whose phone was displaying full screen ads that were not easy to dismiss. You might be using one that’s not infected but can you know with 100% certainty that there are no ads being displayed in the background? You can’t know this if you are using a modded WhatsApp version. The version of FM WhatsApp that had this nasty trojan was 16.80.0. All this is done in the background, except for the ads displayed in the foreground, and even the intercepted message is deleted so you never see it.Some use your phone to send spam to other people.Some sign in to other WhatsApp accounts on your phone and who knows what they use those accounts for.Remember you have to give FM WhatsApp permission to read messages and that’s how the trojan gets permission. Since this usually results in a text message being sent to the device for confirmation, the malware intercepts the message. As some sign the phone/tablet up for paid subscriptions.Some of them download and launch even more malware, including more trojans.The server then sends a link where the trojan downloads a number of different types of malware. When you launch your FM WhatsApp, the trojan springs into action and collects and sends your device details to a remote server. The Trojan Triada they found is one nasty bastard of malware. Rather, the malicious code was in the advertising software development kit they used to be able to display ads in their app. They suspect that the FM WhatsApp developers did not put this trojan in on purpose. Called trojan because it hides its real intent and yet can take control of a computer/phone. Some security researchers found that there was a trojan in a version of FM WhatsApp. I haven’t used one in over 8 years and probably never will again. How many times have friends seen you online and concluded you were ignoring them when you were actually busy with work stuff? WhatsApp mods can help with this but they are just too risky for my liking. With some of these mods, you can make it so certain contacts do not see your ‘online’ status whilst some, work related in the example, can.

Some of us use WhatsApp for work and so would like for family and friends to not see us ‘online’ when we know we can’t chat. They don’t demand people give up their anonymity to participate. My point is that I understand why people love these WhatsApp mods. If a contact of mine doesn’t mind me seeing that info, what does that have to do with what I prefer for my own account? Noone asked for this kind of parity. WHY? They just arbitrarily decided that that’s how it should be.

If you don’t want people to see yours, then you can’t see theirs. The official app believes in a ‘show me yours and I’ll show you mine’ philosophy. Same thing with read receipts (the blue ticks) and other privacy settings. One of the popular features on WhatsApp mods like GB WhatsApp is the ability to hide one’s ‘last seen’ whilst being able to see other people’s. I do not know why the WhatsApp guys often intentionally cripple their app. However, the fact remains that the official app is often slow to add exciting features – for example, to this day the disappearing messages feature is severely limited. The official application is adequate, rocking a pleasing design with a beautiful dark mode.

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