Strange behaviour - hacked?

[nzdave]

Hi all, first post as I only found this forum tonight while trying to figure out what my phone's doing. Hope you don't mind - I am a big windows phone fan and I continue to use my HTC HD7 with Windows 7.5

A while back my phone downloaded near 800mb of data (when not connected to wifi) which ended up costing me. I never figured out what did it as I have minimal apps and no updates were done (that I know of). I have disabled background apps in the settings too.

Lately the back cover has been getting warm on the very odd occasion and battery draining a tad faster, even though I haven't been using it. (Perhaps it's getting a bit old, I can't discount this, but it is seldom).

Today it sent out a whole lot of text messages to random people. The texts were very random and old. For example my neighbour received a text that I'd sent him 15months ago. I phoned my provider and it doesn't seem to be a problem at their end.

My first thought was virus but I have read the topics re: this, and read that it's extremely near impossible to hack a windows phone.

Or is it? This is all very strange! Does anyone wiser than me have any thoughts?

Much appreciated
Dave

 

[xandros9]

Hi all, first post as I only found this forum tonight while trying to figure out what my phone's doing. Hope you don't mind - I am a big windows phone fan and I continue to use my HTC HD7 with Windows 7.5

A while back my phone downloaded near 800mb of data (when not connected to wifi) which ended up costing me. I never figured out what did it as I have minimal apps and no updates were done (that I know of). I have disabled background apps in the settings too.

Lately the back cover has been getting warm on the very odd occasion and battery draining a tad faster, even though I haven't been using it. (Perhaps it's getting a bit old, I can't discount this, but it is seldom).

Today it sent out a whole lot of text messages to random people. The texts were very random and old. For example my neighbour received a text that I'd sent him 15months ago. I phoned my provider and it doesn't seem to be a problem at their end.

My first thought was virus but I have read the topics re: this, and read that it's extremely near impossible to hack a windows phone.

Or is it? This is all very strange! Does anyone wiser than me have any thoughts?

Much appreciated
Dave

Welcome to WPCentral! You have my respect, using a first-generation 7 device.

Well WP7 devices have been jailbroken, its the 8 ones that are proving hard/er to crack.

It's likely not hacked or virus-infected as who would target WP7? Among other reasons.

I'm not sure whats going on. It could be its been possessed by a ghost. But actually, it could be its just getting old and something might be going south. But then again its just plain bizarre. I'm at a loss to explain what could be happening in detail or anything.

 

[nzdave]

Hi, thanks for your time in getting back to me. This morning at 6am it decided to send blank emails from one of my email accounts on there.

I can get a good deal on a Nokia Lumia 820 right now so I might just have to replace it!

Dave

 

[ntice_521]

Maybe your battery is failing.

 

[Draganta]

That is really strange! I suggest you to try a hard reset (will wipe all your personal data and info from it!) and see if it is better then. Replacing it is also not a bad idea, as WP7 is very old, and no longer supported or updated.

 

[nzdave]

That is really strange! I suggest you to try a hard reset (will wipe all your personal data and info from it!) and see if it is better then. Replacing it is also not a bad idea, as WP7 is very old, and no longer supported or updated.

Hi, thanks for your reply. I got a really good deal on a Lumia 820 so I just bought it. Am just backing everything up on Zune as we speak.

 

[xandros9]

Hi, thanks for your reply. I got a really good deal on a Lumia 820 so I just bought it. Am just backing everything up on Zune as we speak.

Ah good to hear!
Keep us posted!