#android
#android
So, I have a friend who has an Android (G2) with Gingerbread. Lately she's been having some sort of malware attack that keeps popping up giving her offers for "6 free ringtones" and other spam-like offers.
She's not sure which app, or if it is an app, that is doing this to her phone. Does anyone have any ideas that might help her find out?
So, I have a friend who has an Android (G2) with Gingerbread. Lately she's been having some sort of malware attack that keeps popping up giving her offers for "6 free ringtones" and other spam-like offers.
She's not sure which app, or if it is an app, that is doing this to her phone. Does anyone have any ideas that might help her find out?
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Chris Darrow, she's using Lookout.
_phone question for you
have you ever had a malicious app show up? I have been getting this notifications in my notification bar "6 Free Ringtones" and spam stuff like that_
So, it looks like they're popping up in htenotification's bar.
She doesn't have a virus, or malware, or anything like that. She has an app installed with a really scummy ad network, that will continuously send notifications and possibly show activities/dialogs with ads.
Have her clarify what the "popups" are. Are they notifications, or are they actual activities appearing on her screen on top of other things. If they're the latter, you can figure out who did this by means of looking at logcat (have her install aLogcat, and send the log to you IMMEDIATELY after this happens).
She should go through her list of apps in phone settings -> applications -> manage applications -> downloaded, and start uninstalling all of the free apps that she downloaded that aren't made by major, well known companies. Kindle can stay. Super Free Bubble Pop 3D gets the boot.
Anything with an internet permission is suspect, and especially anything that's "running". She can "force stop" an application in application details, and it shouldn't be able to alarm itself to cause one of these popups to appear. As of Gingerbread this kind of scummy behavior can be slowed by that method, at least.
Glad to hear you found the cause.