I was going through the Location and Security Settings of my Motorola Droid2 Global from Verizon Wireless and drilling down to the subheading of Device administration and choosing "Select device administrators" results in two choices: (1) Admin Notifier and (2) Norton Anti-Theft, neither of which are checked.
If i choose Norton Anti-Theft it states that, "Activating this administrator will allow the application Norton Anti-Theft to perform the following operations:
Erase all data
Change the screen-unlock password
Set Password Rules
Monitor screen-unlock attempts
Lock the Screen
Should this not be activated in order for Norton Anti-Theft to work?
Did I miss something in the installation instructions?
I didn't read this but it appears to explain the Android Device Administration API
I was going through the Location and Security Settings of my Motorola Droid2 Global from Verizon Wireless and drilling down to the subheading of Device administration and choosing "Select device administrators" results in two choices: (1) Admin Notifier and (2) Norton Anti-Theft, neither of which are checked.
If i choose Norton Anti-Theft it states that, "Activating this administrator will allow the application Norton Anti-Theft to perform the following operations:
Erase all data
Change the screen-unlock password
Set Password Rules
Monitor screen-unlock attempts
Lock the Screen
Should this not be activated in order for Norton Anti-Theft to work?
Did I miss something in the installation instructions?
I didn't read this but it appears to explain the Android Device Administration API
So, QA did some testing around this. Adding NAT to this list isn't required for any functionality for NAT. The only change that occurs is that the app will not be able to be uninstalled until the app is removed from the list. Think of it as a minor form of uninstall protection.
So, maybe this should be an option offered when installing (along with a good explanation so that those less "involved" will be able to make a learned decision)?
You asked about "Admin Notifier". I had not heard of it before but it seems to imply that you have a Motorola phone as most links to it seem to point that way. I certainly don't have it. One apparently knowledgeable post on it says:
Quote:
Admin Notifier ties into Exchange accounts. When enterprise Exchange accounts are setup, they supply a device policy to your phone. You can accept the policy and use Exchange or not accept and not use the service... They can control just about everything on the device. Remote wipe, pull GPS information, pull contacts/calendar/email/sms, calendar sync/push, contact sync/push, etc.
But basically that's what it's for.
Unquote.
Not sure I fully understand that but it sounds a bit scary to me.
OK, that makes sense. On my phone, the second possibility is Good, which is a secure way of handling the same enterprise-level requirements, so that corporate data can't fall into the wrong hands if your phone is lost or stolen. A lot of enterprise IT organizations will require that to be there if you want to be able to access their Exchange server from your personal mobile device. If it's there but not enabled...it may be immaterial for it to exercise the function, like it evidently is for Norton--or you may have preserved a little more privacy than they think!
I had seen the post regarding Exhange and also saw some where it was suggested it might be the carriers' tracking software the name of which I am forgetting but was something that ended in IQ that was getting a lot of attention last week. I also saw posts in the Motorola forums and yes, my unit is a Motorola Droid 2 Global and the "Admin Notifier" by default is not turned on.
The IQ software you refer to blondcb is probably the one referred to in two threads in the Norton Mobile Security form. If you are interested you may like to look at:
