Find Out If You Have Carrier IQ

At least three apps are already able to determine whether the software which is claimed to sent your personal information to the mobile companies, Carrier IQ is installed on your phone or not. You can choose between an app that is created by an Android antivirus expert to detect the malicious keylogger, another one written by Trevor Eckhart who was the first to announce that the Carrier IQ is running on mobile devices and CIQ detect.

The first app is created by an Android antivirus expert to detect if the allegedly malicious keylogging, activity-, and location-tracking process is running on your Android smartphone.

The Lookout app is a very simple Carrier IQ detector: download and install and it does a quick scan to tell you if CIQ is present, but it can't actually remove it from your system. Given Lookout's strong reputation as a security developer for Android, hopefully this free app will be more reliable than another such CIQ detect or we saw released this week, which said its results are not reliable yet.

Trevor Eckhart, the guy you've probably read about by now who first raised the alarm about Carrier IQ and was threatened by the company, also developed a detector app, but it's not quite so user-friendly for the non-coder.