Found a nice app for those of you that might have experienced the annoying "plus" sign or some other weird symbol in your notification bar that takes you to some website when you click on it, it is caused from rouge app's couldn't figure it out for the life of me...However if you go the market and download the app called "airpush detector" it will tell you what app is the culprit and it's free! Found out mine was coming from Music Paradise...enjoy.
Agree. Be aware of free music apps and specially mp3 download apps.
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jb8301 said:
Found a nice app for those of you that might have experienced the annoying "plus" sign or some other weird symbol in your notification bar that takes you to some website when you click on it, it is caused from rouge app's couldn't figure it out for the life of me...However if you go the market and download the app called "airpush detector" it will tell you what app is the culprit and it's free! Found out mine was coming from Music Paradise...enjoy.
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I'm downloading 'airpush detector' along with 'addons detector'. We will see how it works. Usually my biggest concern about this type of apps is how much it consumes the cpu/memory and battery.
I have always wondered why companies push ads, do people actually click them? I think the whole ad supported internet is a bubble that is about to pop, and pull down companies like google with it.
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kobridge said:
Agree. Be aware of free music apps and specially mp3 download apps.
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I'm downloading 'airpush detector' along with 'addons detector'. We will see how it works. Usually my biggest concern about this type of apps is how much it consumes the cpu/memory and battery.
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Airpush detector - simple and one click refresh. Light weight apk.
Addons detector - heavier than Airpush. Create 'Addons detector' option at Settings > Accessbility. Provide options to turn on or off.
I'm not going to provide the product review in here but personally Airpush detector seems like better fit to me. Kept Airpush but removed Addons.
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I have always wondered why companies push ads, do people actually click them? I think the whole ad supported internet is a bubble that is about to pop, and pull down companies like google with it.
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Unfortunately there are those that do push them. My wife came running up to me just the other day and said, "Honey look! I just won an iPad3!" Before I could look at the push notification she clicked it.
Fortunately I stopped her before she started entering all of her personal information!
EDIT: Needless to say I used Airpush and found the offending app and helped her to remove it.
The airpush phenomenon is becoming more and more virus like. My customers devices get infected with this crap, and constantly get an internal memory full error, consistant lag and power cycling. It not until I either hard reset or remove the culprit app do these things stop. I've escalated this to my S&R manager, and was told he was pushing to get eTicket its own complaint type devoted to the airpush virus.
There is also a airpush blocker on the market. It works great for me. Blocks the notification add from several sources. "Notification add Killer" or "NAK" is also a good detector/uninstaller.
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"Airblocker"
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsInBsLmJ5cS5haXJibG9ja2VyIl0.
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rwilco12 said:
Unfortunately there are those that do push them. My wife came running up to me just the other day and said, "Honey look! I just won an iPad3!" Before I could look at the push notification she clicked it.
Fortunately I stopped her before she started entering all of her personal information!
EDIT: Needless to say I used Airpush and found the offending app and helped her to remove it.
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Promise people free stuff, no matter how scam-like, and they will bite...
People even fall for the Nigeria 409 scams still... Blows my mind.
And as long as gullible people like that exist, others will prey upon them.
rwilco12 said:
Unfortunately there are those that do push them. My wife came running up to me just the other day and said, "Honey look! I just won an iPad3!" Before I could look at the push notification she clicked it.
Fortunately I stopped her before she started entering all of her personal information!
EDIT: Needless to say I used Airpush and found the offending app and helped her to remove it.
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I hope you tapped her on her nose and said "no".
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orb360 said:
Promise people free stuff, no matter how scam-like, and they will bite...
People even fall for the Nigeria 409 scams still... Blows my mind.
And as long as gullible people like that exist, others will prey upon them.
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Lol yeah we had a nice long talk about scams and how nothing is ever "free“.
It just blows my mind, people can be so smart but they see the words "FREE IPAD" then they throw the smarts out the window.
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I hope you tapped her on her nose and said "no".
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Today, for the second time, I received a notification (only showed up in the notification bar) that I have a "Gift Pending" and I "could be today's Christmas Winner"
When I click on the notification it brings me to a webpage with a broken URL
This seems incredibly fishy to me.. does anyone know what this is, if it's malware, and how to remove it?
did you installed any weird app? it might be an ads from those app.
Probably one of those apps that has those notification ads.. you'll have to find the app and uninstall it.
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I haven't installed anything out of the ordinary.. "facebook photo sync" "syncmypix" and "ski report" are the only ones that could be considered "werid"
I just deleted my 2 most recently installed apps. Maybe this will fix the problem.
I think I freaked out because I've never seen an advertisement like that before. I wish Google didn't allow this!
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I just deleted my 2 most recently installed apps. Maybe this will fix the problem.
I think I freaked out because I've never seen an advertisement like that before. I wish Google didn't allow this!
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So you want Google to not allow applications to give notifications?
Or maybe you really did win a xmas gift! you lucky dog you!
cjsph88 said:
I just deleted my 2 most recently installed apps. Maybe this will fix the problem.
I think I freaked out because I've never seen an advertisement like that before. I wish Google didn't allow this!
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You cannot choose to allow or disallow certain notifications.. How the hell would you go about doing that. Simply stop using the app, and if enough people do so the developer will lose money and chose another ad-model.
Does anyone get random app notifications that seem like spam. Apps like "badoo" and other crap.
Also, I get random pictures in my gallery that are apparently downloaded into my phone without me knowing. I delete them, but every few days I notice 1 or a few have shown up again.
I'm trying to add screenshots, but I keep getting errors. Ill edit on computer.
edit: Here are the screenshots.
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I get those notifications every once in a while. I believe they come from certain apps like yahoo messenger used to do that. Same thing with the pictures there like cached images for apps or ads. Try using an add blocking host file if your not already it helps a lot.
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I've always used yahoo messenger and have never got those. I would double check any obscure apps you have added to your phone. Some probably have bad intentions.
I can't really see any of my apps being questionable. Of course I wouldn't really know for sure I guess. I was just hoping somebody would be able to pinpoint the problem, but it probably is something that happens quite often and is hard to pinpoint.
It is definitely caused by an app you installed. Your best bet would be to get your apps sorted by date of install and start deleting your most recent apps until this goes away.
When this happened to me, it was from some live wallpaper I had installed.
Ya I guess that makes perfect sense. I just wondered how many other people have seen it. I plan to clear everything and do a hard reset anyway. Starting from scratch cause I'm tired of ridiculous lag.
Allstar...
look for an app that removes " airpush " notifcations
AirPush Detector - Dan Bjorge
Addons Detector - Denper
Lookout Ad Network Detector - lookout labs
I get them, I think they are Go Locker ics theme.
I had that go locker ics theme...and I never had an ad like that...but meh...I got rid of all the go software save for go launcher...though I think I might be going back to the launcher pro that I had on my garminefone
This app will tell you the culprit.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.brosmike.airpushdetector
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This app will tell you the culprit.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.brosmike.airpushdetector
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Big thanks!! It showed me the one app that was causing the spam. Mp3 Music Download was the culprit. I haven't used it in awhile so I deleted it. Thanks for the tip.
Have a feeling a lot of people have already heard about it, but for anyone who hasnt tried it, definitely get it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lbe.security.lite
Its an app manager that lets you control what apps have access to. You can block apps from accessing the internet, viewing your personal info and take away any permissions you dont want it to have.
A big benefit to this also is battery life will go up as a result of blocking apps which always connect to the internet to upload your data or steam ads to you. A lot of freeware apps also have way too many permissions and this lets you effectively block them.
Its the first thing I install everytime I use a new rom
I'm gonna check it out...thanks for posting it
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Have a feeling a lot of people have already heard about it, but for anyone who hasnt tried it, definitely get it.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lbe.security.lite
Its an app manager that lets you control what apps have access to. You can block apps from accessing the internet, viewing your personal info and take away any permissions you dont want it to have.
A big benefit to this also is battery life will go up as a result of blocking apps which always connect to the internet to upload your data or steam ads to you. A lot of freeware apps also have way too many permissions and this lets you effectively block them.
Its the first thing I install everytime I use a new rom
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I really appreciate you posting this and letting us know about this app! I don't think I would've come across it otherwise.
So I installed it and I'm just dumbfounded at all the stuff that some apps want access to....Why the f*** does Angry Birds: Space need to access my phone's GPS data?? There's an odd one!
Oh, by the way....a co-worker of mine with an iPhone smugly showed me that the functionality of LBE Privacy Guard app is actually built right into the iOS.
Not trying to turn this into an Android Vs Apple thread, but man, that kinda got under my skin.
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I really appreciate you posting this and letting us know about this app! I don't think I would've come across it otherwise.
So I installed it and I'm just dumbfounded at all the stuff that some apps want access to....Why the f*** does Angry Birds: Space need to access my phone's GPS data?? There's an odd one!
Oh, by the way....a co-worker of mine with an iPhone smugly showed me that the functionality of LBE Privacy Guard app is actually built right into the iOS.
Not trying to turn this into an Android Vs Apple thread, but man, that kinda got under my skin.
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If I recall, there's a developer option you can enable in CM7 that allows you to do just this. Just press the permission you want to block when installing the app or afterward. CM9 doesn't (to my knowledge) have this option yet, but I'm sure it will. Good day, iPhone users =).
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I really appreciate you posting this and letting us know about this app! I don't think I would've come across it otherwise.
So I installed it and I'm just dumbfounded at all the stuff that some apps want access to....Why the f*** does Angry Birds: Space need to access my phone's GPS data?? There's an odd one!
Oh, by the way....a co-worker of mine with an iPhone smugly showed me that the functionality of LBE Privacy Guard app is actually built right into the iOS.
Not trying to turn this into an Android Vs Apple thread, but man, that kinda got under my skin.
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Its scary how many apps want full control of your phone. Ive seen them wanting to read my contacts list and even control my messaging app. A lot of it has to do with data mining of their customers. All the info they collect from you is pretty valuable and the gps thing is pretty scary too. Theyre able to record your coordinates and report the info back to them. Not to mention its going to kill your battery too with them doing this.
Security apps I use
Droidwall - simple iptables for android
PDroid - like it better than Lbe, takes less resources but needs patch and waiting for ics support
Addons detector - shows which apps have "adware, spyware, etc."
Thanks William for mentioning PDroid. The app thread is here
PDroid gives message saying I needed to build somethingortheother first in order for it to work on my OG EPIC 4G .... LBE working great right outta the box though
Wow its come a long way I remember this when I first got rooted the guy mentioned using this... but its icon was red and the ui was bland they really uped it a notch =] completely forgot about this app thanks.. love it.
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how do I get it out of my notification bar?
It says "Allow Haypi KingdomobtainIMEI" but I can't swipe it away
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Nvm its the event logger I thought I needed to accept from there and it was being buggy LOL
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Nvm its the event logger I thought I needed to accept from there and it was being buggy LOL
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There is an option in the prefrences to turn off the notifications in the status bar.
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I'm getting sick of suddenly getting stupid app shortcuts on my homescreen that open into a browser some bullcrappy app that I don't want or need and advertisements in the status bar panel about cars and jobs etc.
Kaspersky does a good job at picking up dangerous and suspicious apps now if I could find something like spybot or adaware.
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I'm getting sick of suddenly getting stupid app shortcuts on my homescreen that open into a browser some bullcrappy app that I don't want or need and advertisements in the status bar panel about cars and jobs etc.
Kaspersky does a good job at picking up dangerous and suspicious apps now if I could find something like spybot or adaware.
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Your best bet would be Lookout Security &Anti-virus. It has an app scanner that scans for adware, malware, spyware and viruses.
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Your best bet would be Lookout Security &Anti-virus. It has an app scanner that scans for adware, malware, spyware and viruses.
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Giving it one more try, don't remember why I left it the last time I tried it.
Well that was stupid and annoying, it said one of my app's was spyware and I saw 3 or 4 shortcuts to games and junk on my homescreen, fixed it and removed the app went to sleep woke up and had 3 more shortcuts on my homescreen and no threats detected. LoL! WTF?
The best anti-virus is You! Don't install random crap and read the permissions and you'll be fine. I've never used one and never had a problem.
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The best anti-virus is You! Don't install random crap and read the permissions and you'll be fine. I've never used one and never had a problem.
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+1 to this guy. I do the same for my PC also. No spyware & every 6 months, i backup movies, songs, all data & restore my PC... I also do the same to my phone. ( I do a restore to the phone ever 3 months, sometimes because of new ROM updates and sometimes because i just feel better inside.. lol)
Start with downloading the app called "airpush detector" and see if it find anything. Let us know
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Start with downloading the app called "airpush detector" and see if it find anything. Let us know
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I found out All In One Toolbox has an Ad Detect Plugin and it found a lot more than Airpush Detector did, Airpush only found 3, Ad Detect more then that plus lookout detected one adware app, now I've just been uninstalling and trying to eliminate the culprit.
Hello, so recently I've been dealing with pop up ads on my phone. I factory reset the phone and they were gone, but now it's having ads again when I don't even have an app open. I've tried virus scanners and nothing detected. Is there a way to figure out what file is causing this?
Thank you!
I had that same issue last week. Are they popping up though chrome or firefox? It was a rogue app on my part but for you it looks like its something else. Since you already factory reset the phone, you might as well download the latest build and "flash-all". After that you should not have any problems as it completely wipes the device.
If you goto your battery settings does it show an app that may be causing ads?
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Did you try lookout or eset virus scanner?
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equlizer said:
I had that same issue last week. Are they popping up though chrome or firefox? It was a rogue app on my part but for you it looks like its something else. Since you already factory reset the phone, you might as well download the latest build and "flash-all". After that you should not have any problems as it completely wipes the device.
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So it pops up randomly not just using chrome. A few minutes ago I was in the middle of a Clash Royale Game and an add popped up. I recently downloaded a QR reader from the play store and I think that's when it started again.
I deleted the app, but it's been still going on. That's why I went to use the anti virus/malware apps, but they found nothing.
Is there anyway to fix or find what is doing it without factory resetting?
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If you goto your battery settings does it show an app that may be causing ads?
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No, nothing shows up on my battery setting.
check the root directory for any strange folders that should not belong there and delete those. I had some that were like 5489399fgjjll and crap. Those are a sure sign there is malware on your phone
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check the root directory for any strange folders that should not belong there and delete those. I had some that were like 5489399fgjjll and crap. Those are a sure sign there is malware on your phone
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Aww dang, alright. Thanks.
Is the root directory the android->data folder?
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Aww dang, alright. Thanks.
Is the root directory the android->data folder?
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No it would be back one more step but I would look there also
But you are going to need root to view that part
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Did you ever get an answer? My husband is having this same issue and we cannot figure out what is causing it? Thanks!
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adriel161 said:
Aww dang, alright. Thanks.
Is the root directory the android->data folder?
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gjkrisa said:
No it would be back one more step but I would look there also
But you are going to need root to view that part
Can anyone tell me where I can look for these? I haven’t found where to see these folders. Thanks!
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download kaspersky and do a scan , it should clean whatever is doing that.
adriel161 said:
Hello, so recently I've been dealing with pop up ads on my phone. I factory reset the phone and they were gone, but now it's having ads again when I don't even have an app open. I've tried virus scanners and nothing detected. Is there a way to figure out what file is causing this?
Thank you!
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Did you solve this?
having the same issue with my nexus 6p
anyone solved this problem?
UPDATE:
i may have found the culprit, it's the qrcode scanner app, i may need a few hour to verify this
Just did Kaspersky and nothing found. Another $3 wasted ...
@hketola: Kapersky isn't trustworthy IMO. Try Malwarebytes instead.
If you have Adaway installed, go into the settings and check for Adaware, it'll tell you what apps and what kind of ads they push
I just had the same problem and it seemed to be caused by the app store. So I read all your efforts and then took a look in my settings and here's what I did that resolved the issues: settings < apps & notifications < advanced < Special app access < display over other apps < google play services < switch to "not allowed"
Hope this works for you.
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I just had the same problem and it seemed to be caused by the app store. So I read all your efforts and then took a look in my settings and here's what I did that resolved the issues: settings < apps & notifications < advanced < Special app access < display over other apps < google play services < switch to "not allowed"
Hope this works for you.
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I'll let you know as I've been having this issue for the last few days. Thank you!
I fixed a similar issue on a friends phone. When Ad appears, swipe up (assuming pill gesture on Android 9) and you get the recents screens. The current app (app showing ad) icon will be at top of the screen preview. Press and hold on the icon until a context menu appears and select App Info. Now you know which app is popping ads up.
Google Account Ad Personalization (Ad Settings)
The Patriot Act started all this bull****. No Privacy
It's that ****ing google ads that you can opt out of, but they force the others ads on you.
This is an invasion of privacy you pay all this money for your personal phone and they force content on you whether you like it or not.
I'm thinking about downgrading my phone and operating systems?
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Useless, politically-tinged rant.
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Trying to get past the 10 post filter aye? That's what it looks like based upon the fact you replied to a post that's been dead for six months plus.
Now I won't engage with your political rant because this isn't political. You own the hardware, but Google owns the software, especially the Google apps. The ads are Google's means of recouping development costs of Android.
Now, if you don't want ads but want to use Google apps, you install and run Blokada. It works on virtually everything, except YouTube. Or you use a version of Android that doesn't include Google apps.
If neither option appeals to you, try and find a dumbphone, because Apple is worse.