How to spoof MAC address on android phones

MAC is the acronym for Media Access Control. Its address is a unique code made up of 12 (XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX) characters for a particular hardware like say the network adapter of your WiFi device. In simple words, a MAC address can be used to uniquely identify your Android phone on the Internet or the local network.

Changing of MAC address is called MAC address spoofing.

Generally speaking, yes,it is possible to spoof a MAC address.But it is also possible that some manufacturer has restricted the way of doing this... so,  based on your phone's brand and model,  results may vary.

You can of course change this address permanently or temporarily depending on your requirement. Usually you need a rooted phone to change the address but to change the address temporarily you can use a phone that is not rooted.

To temporarily change android MAC address without rooting the first thing you need is to know the MAC address. To find it on your tablet just touch the Menu key and go to Settings. Scroll down to About Tablet and there select Status. Just scroll down and view the address. If you are using an android phone you can do the same thing or alternatively on About Phone select Hardware Information and see the address. Another way is to select Wireless Network from Settings and there select WiFi settings and get the address from the Advanced section.

Next thing is to download a free app called the Android Terminal Emulator. Install it on your device. You need to know the name of your card to actually make the change. So open the app and type

ip link show

You will get a list of the different interfaces. On the list search for the address that matches the one that you found out earlier. Now to change it to the temporary address just type in the following commands:

ip link set AAAA address XX:XX:XX:YY:YY:YY

ip link set AAAA broadcast XX:XX:XX:YY:YY:YY.

Here AAAA is the name of the interface that you want to change and XX:XX:XX:YY:YY:YY is the new temporary address that you are assigning to the hardware. Remember that the address is made up of characters so it can be numbers or alphabets. Now to check whether the address has changed just type
ip link show AAAA

While denoting the new address it is important to keep in mind that only the last 3 sets should be changed. The first three sets should be kept same. If you change them you will face a lot of authentication issues.

As these changes are temporary whenever you reboot your device the MAC address will change back to the original address so you will have to repeat the above instructions again.

There are also some apps available on Google Playstore which supposedly help in temporarily changing the MAC address without rooting like the MAC changer app. All you have to do is follow the instructions given in the app.

How can I run Kali Linux on the Android device without rooting?

The very first step to this project is to have an Android phone running OS 4.1 +.

This process would require no root.

Moving on, we have to remember that the majority of the android phones available now in the market are not 64 bit supportive they are all meant for 32 bit OS. hence, the OS needs to be 32 bit. period.

We begin by downloading the appropriate ISO image from the official kali linux website which you can find here- Kali Linux Downloads please make sure you download the 32 bit version which states Kali Linux 1.0.6 32 Bit Mini ISO as shown below-

Next, we need a PC emulator for Android and we choose to install the limbo PC emulator, it is interesting to note that it has been removed from Google play store so you will have to search for other alternatives like sourceforge. Once downloaded and installed on your mobile device, you are ready for the real deal.

Run the Limbo PC emulator on your mobile device, and configure it with the following parameters as shown in the figures below-

Make sure that the mini ISO image of Kali linux is saved/copied onto the Mobile device. And point the ISO image under CDROM option.

You will also need to allocate space for hard disk, this will be a collective figure and it will be split into swap and primary storage later. Select the Network configuration to be ?User? to use the default card/settings on the mobile device. Set Boot from device to be default so post installation, it will automatically boot from the hard disk.

 No changes to the Advanced configuration.

?Start? the emulator and you will see the installation window.

The easiest way to proceed would be the auto install but, I suggest manual install.

Sometimes it could be an issue with finding the right mirror for the download but, trial and error always wins. (For latest mirror links refer official Kali website)

But in most cases, with the auto install, it will find the nearest available mirror and download the packages.

Packages being downloaded.

Setting up the root account.

Installation continues..

starting up the partitioner..

Guided partitioning..

Auto allocation of disk space, it allots swap and ext automatically but, you can manually change that as well.

Writing the partitions

Quick glance at the installer menu?

Almost there..

Congrats you now have kali linux on your android phone.

A couple of things to note:

1. You might face issues with installing additional software packages but, don?t be perturbed, remember you can skip them and install them individually post installation.

2. Once installation is completed, if the machine does not automatically boot, go to your machine in limbo PC emulator and point the boot device to Hard disk.

3. If you face boot loader issues, you can skip it and manually fix it at a later stage.

4. For additional troubleshooting, try to tweak the CPU settings, allocated RAM, etc.

How to remove shortcut virus permanently from PC, Pendrive and Laptop

This is very common question,everyone who uses computer must have face this Shortcut virus issue and for general people it is very difficult to remove shortcut virus.  Or if somehow they manage to remove, it come again. So we need some permanent solution for it. So here i will tell you method to remove shortcut virus from PC and pendrive permanently with and without using any shortcut virus remover.

What is Shortcut Virus?

Shortcut Virus is program that spreads though flash drives, internet, third party software etc. It create replica of your original files and folders. And when you click on it to open your files, it multiply itself and install some more virus and malicious software, browser plugins, keyloggers etc. With that it either monitor your PC or it try to advertise on your browsers or it can also steal your cards details.

Many people think that this shortcut virus is not harmful but they don’t know how much harm it can cost to their PC. And some people just try to remove this virus with delete button. But after some time it comes back.

This shortcut virus is so smart that even most of the antivirus program is unable to detect it. Or if somehow they detect it or delete it, it somehow manage to recover itself. So you need to look this permanent solution to remove shortcut virus from your computer.

Method 1: Remove Shortcut Virus Using CMD(command prompt)

This is the easiest method to remove shortcut virus from pendrive or PC. You do not require to download any shortcut virus remover tool for it.

•  First open CMD. Just type cmd in Run or find command prompt in start menu.
•  Now type the name of the drive in which virus is located. : Like “f: “, if F is your drive name or any other according to drive from which you want to remove shortcut
• Now type” attrib f:*.*/d/s -h -r –s ” attrib-h-r-s/s/df:\*.*

               -h: to unhide all files on drive W

                -r: create the files in drive W is free of read-only attribute.

                -s: making all files on drive W to be not part of the system again, so easy in the clear

                  f: w drive

             *. * : All files ending in

   

 

• Now this command will remove all the shortcuts from your drive.

It’s that easy to remove all shortcut virus from PC or USB flash drive using CMD.

Method 2: Remove Shortcut Virus in one click using .bat file

In the above method, you need to do the same process for all drive again and again. But if you want to remove shortcut virus in single click then just use this method of bat file. It is very easy to create bat file. Let’s learn how to do it.

• First Open Notepad.
• Now copy this code from here and paste it into your Notepad file.

                              @echo off

                               attrib -h -s -r -a /s /d Drive-Name:*.*

                               attrib -h -s -r -a /s /d Drive-Name:*.*

                               attrib -h -s -r -a /s /d Drive-Name:*.*

                               @echo complete

• Now replace the Drive-Name in the code with all your drives name.
• Now save this file as shortcutvirusremover.bat on your desktop. 
• Now run this bat file.
• It will now remove all the shortcut from all the drives you mentioned in the code.

So this is fast and easy, if next time you found this virus again, simply run this bat file and it will delete all.

Method 3: Remove Shortcut virus using Shortcut Virus remover

If you are unable to remove shortcuts using the above cmd method, then you can use these shortcut virus remover tool to clear shortcut virus from your laptop or USB drives. This tool is helpful if you don’t want to do manual tweaks to remove this virus, and it also help in removing it permanently.

• First Download Shortcut Virus Remover Software from here.
• Now just open its folder as it does not require any installation.
• Now just run this tool.
• Now it will ask you to select Pen Drive or Computer, from which you want to remove shortcut virus.
• If you want to remove shortcut Virus from Pendrive then select Pendrive option.
• If you want to remove shortcut virus from Computer then select computer.
•  After this you need to select the drive from which you want to remove virus. Then just click on Scan button.
• Now it will scan and list all the shortcut virus in drive. Now simply click on delete button, it will delete shortcut virus from your pc.

These are the ways to remove shortcut virus from your PC, Pendrive, Laptop or Computer. I think its easy now to remove shortcut virus without any tool using cmd or bat file and if it does not work for you then you can download shortcut virus remover tool and then in one click you can remove all the shortcut virus permanently so they will not come back again.