

We want to uncheck “Automatically Retrieve messages” Next we need to go in to “Multimedia messages” and disable “Auto Retrieve” Next we will open “Default Messaging App” and make sure it is set to “Messages” and not Hangouts or another app

Step 1 starts with opening your text messaging app and choosing settings, After much trial and error we believe we have found a work around that will keep you safe until your phone carrier decides to release this fix.īelow we have outlined a few simple steps that should protect you, once complete don’t open any text from anyone you don’t know that has a video file attached. Once we realized many of the carriers for the Android platforms had not applied the update release by Google back in May 2015 and this Stagefright hack had been released publicly last week we knew we need to find a way to protect our users without having them simply just disable all text messaging on their Android devices.

Android Text Video Virus Fix – StageFright Hack
