Am I misunderstanding Anti-Theft functionality?

I installed avast! mobile on my rooted HTC Desire running Android 2.2 and I’ve been playing around with the Anti-Theft settings.

During the install, I created a fake application name (Lets call in ‘Game1’) and this fake app has been downloaded and installed.

In avast! when ‘Enable Anti-Theft’ is true, the ‘Game1’ icon is hidden but avast can still be launched (I understand this to be correct). However, when launching avast, Anti-Theft is one of the sub-menu options - I can’t understand why because a thief just needs to be launch avast (if they figured my PIN) and can then access the anti-theft menu and disable the features

I THOUGHT the purpose of the fake application was to make it impossible to access the anti-theft features UNLESS the thief happened to know which app was the fake AND they knew the PIN.

So, I don’t know whether I’ve screwed up the installation, whether I’ve found a bug or whether I’ve misunderstood the functionality…

(I can access the Anti-theft features as thru ‘Game1’ as I would expect so the installation isn’t completely screwed. I’ve also re-booted the phone a couple of times, just to ensure any new settings are applied)

Hi,

well, if they figure out your PIN, they can simply call it and access Anti-Theft directly. Access through AMS is just to make your life easier (and also to set it up at later time if you skipped the installation during initial setup).

Filip

Did you ever find a solution to this problem? I have the same problem.

Thanks,
Terry

PS: as Filip said, once they know your PIN there is a problem anyways. + you can just use AT and remove AMS if you want.