[Android General] xuul:
I was looking for a solution to root a Dragon Touch y88x 7" tablet last night, and as seems to be the case with most Dragon Touch products, there just isn't a lot of specific information on how to root them.

Someone had mentioned a tool to download from the manufacturer's website, but unfortunately the link to it is dead, and a Google search linked to the same dead page.

Then, some assbandit/shill/idiot/troll (not sure which; could be all of the above) recommended vRoot/iRoot. I should have known better, but the last time I was an active user of the forums here, people that posted advice could be trusted.

I can't for the life of me find the thread this jerk posted the link and said something like, "There's some adware it will try to get you to install, but just hit no or decline and you'll be fine".

So I found the download page. A page entirely in Chinese but for the button saying "Download". I clicked it, like every other gullible, desperate, or lazy moron that's ever clicked the link.

I had both Malwarebytes and aVast up to date and running at this time, just to be clear.

Upon running the installer, I was in fact asked if i would like to try some unknown worthless adware that checks the weather and a few others. Clicked "No" on all of them.

When the installer was done, the window for vRoot popped up. Entirely written in Chinese, I followed the instructions someone had written and it said it was successful.

BS. No dice.

Then, on my computer, (Win 7 X64), i noticed the notification bar filling up with crap I wouldn't install to save my life.

- I have no fewer than 9 processes that start with Windows that I am unable to uninstall or disable effectively.

- No fewer than 13 pieces of unwanted software that all pop up with their nag screens as soon as I logon to Windows.

I ran a full scan with Malwarebytes and got a few hits. Quarantined them, and ran a deep scan with aVast! which included a boot time scan that took all day. It found tons of corrupted and problematic files as well as some of this new software that is obviously malware. To my chagrin, when the computer was restarted and I logged back in, I was once again greeted with the nagware as if it were giving me the middle finger. WTF.

At this point, I am sure it's done other terrible things to my Windows installation and I'll have to go through the incredible pain in the ass of wiping the drive and re-installing Windows.

So thank you, assbandits that keep trolling and trying to get people to install this trash. I hope enough people notice this issue, jump up and down and whine and scream for the mods to hear our cry, and automatically close threads where vRoot and iRoot are mentioned until this plague goes away.

Bottom line is that vRoot/iRoot is a virus...

or, really more like a virus launcher that launches an ICBM that has a warhead full of lots of wizards and angry bees and bill collectors that all want to make you miserable.

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---------- Post added at 03:35 AM ---------- Previous post was at 03:28 AM ----------

REPORTED.

I don't know what you personally gain from having people install this virus ridden piece of sh** but you have cost me alone a whole day of using my computer for work trying to rid it to this virus that just won't effing die. Avast didn't detect it. Malwarebytes didn't detect it. Neither will get rid of it.

SO I am reporting you and anyone else that promotes installing this horrible thing.