Originally Posted by
GeorgeWhite
Rooting your phone is needed to get rid of the nasty HTC backdoor app. As they say in the article, you have to delete this file: /system/app/HtcLoggers.apk
I may nEed to learn to do rooting, after all. Regardless, it doesn't seem to address this vulnerability and it seems like the article expects to find others, as well
Additionally, and the implications of this could end up being insignificant, yet still very suspicious, HTC also decided to add an app called androidvncserver.apk to their Android OS installations. If you're not familiar with the definition of VNC, it is basically a remote access server. On the EVO 3D, it was present from the start and updated in the latest OTA. The app doesn't get started by default, but who knows what and who can trigger it and potentially get access to your phone remotely? I'm sure we'll know soon enough - HTC, care to tell us what it's doing here?