Avast Anti-Theft send SMS to Czech Republic

Hi,

I have a problem, why Avast Anti-Theft send (every week, more or less) a SMS to a number of Czech Republic (the phone number is 420720001669)???
each SMS to Czech Republic cost me 0,30€ !

it seems you’ve run into a bug that occurs not very often in the current public version.
we will release an update this week which will fix this.
i am sorry for this inconvenience!

Ok, thank you!

I’m having the same problem. It has send 3 text messages to this nummer.
Costing me a total of €0.75!

Is there a work-around we can use to prevent more costs untill the update comes out?

unpair your device from the account (in the Anti-Theft UI) and then pair it again.

I also found a charge from Aug 21 2012 for this on my phone bill. I’ll un-pair and re-pair my account and wait for the update.

What is the update status?

I cannot speak officially, as I’m not from the development team, but seems next week or so.

Refering to this topic… Is it possible, that apart from sending SMS to Czech Republic, Anti-Theft sends it also to a number (in this case, my girlfriend’s) I’ve indicated as a number from which a can send SMS with specific commands for instance, activating Siren? Yesterday something sent from my phone 4 messages to Czech Republic and about 30 messages(!!) to my girlfriend’s number (according to my billing). All between 22:46 and 22:48. Luckily all these SMSs have cost of 0.00 in my billing. My girlfriend didnt received these 30 messages (they were only visible in my billing). What do you think?

UPDATE: All messages were free in my billing, because a had no money on my pre-paid account that evening… I’ll let you know if my operator get money for these messages after I add funds to account. Previous SMSes sent from my phone (September, 21) were paid.

issues with SMS sending have been fixed in the newest update. please check.

for the moment there are not problems :slight_smile:

As I didn’t wanted to start new topic. Here it comes again:

  1. On the SIM card that was registered as a first one configured the Avast app.
  2. I did a Anti Theft set up
  3. Changed the SIM card for another one that I use to check if everything works
  4. All the functions worked so I have switched the 1st SIMcard back in
  5. Then logged in to check my billing on mobile provider’s website

What I have noticed my 1st card was not charged but the second one (lets say thieve’s card) had already sent two messages to that Czechs number within 4 minutes.

Did anybody had that issue since last post here (05.10.2012) ?

I installed avast on my mobile.
I wanted to test the theft function. But this was a little bit of a trap. This cost me now quite a lot of money.
In 5 seconds 5 SMS were sent (in total over 40 SMS).
The worst: also to CZ number 420720001669 (I haven’t read anything about this…)
I think this is a little bit to buggy!

if there is an untrusted SIM (second card), it is OK that avast sends SMS to our server.

what exactly did you do?
PS: you’ll get warned in a SEPARATE dialog box about the SMS when you register to the account. you need to read! :slight_smile:

Hello,

I have a problem, why Avast Anti-Theft send SMS to a number of Czech Republic (420720001669)?

Each SMS to Czech Republic cost me 0,26€ and it send 5 SMS!!

this is to keep our servers up-to-date about phone number state.
in the next release we’ll include an option to turn those SMS off.

All very well and good but I’ve uninstalled it because it’s just cost me $3.25!

Thank you for that…

Hello,

I installed the last version of Avast this week and the 16 january 2013 an SMS was sent to 420720001669 costing me 0.30 €.

The bug is not resolved yet…

this is no bug. we send the SMS to report SIM status but try to do it only if really necessary.
in next version I’ll include a setting to turn this off.