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Post by mechtout on Mar 14, 2017 10:19:58 GMT -5
Anyone else get an android virus alert from this forum that says your phone has been compromised by 4 viruses, click here to remove?
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Post by Strayed on Mar 14, 2017 10:36:39 GMT -5
Wrong board, this should be in off topic.
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Post by Strayed on Mar 14, 2017 10:36:54 GMT -5
And that, my friend, is why you use ad blocker. Either that or you have adware on your device.
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Post by ł⸰§ĦȺĐ◎ŴƧŦḀɌ on Mar 14, 2017 10:42:42 GMT -5
It's not from the forum, per se, it's from one of the banner ads. Proboards needs to vet their advertising clients better, somebody is playing dirty. The "You're Infected!!1!" pop-up warning on Androids is actually incredibly common depending on where you go on the 'Nets. The more 'free' &/or '「popcorn」' in the content area means that much more likelihood that there will be bad actors. In this forum's case it's 'cause 'free' but what can ya do  |
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Post by mechtout on Mar 14, 2017 13:47:08 GMT -5
Wrong board, this should be in off topic. Oops sorry, this forum doesnt have a technical section and general discussion says talk anything in there lol. Maybe add the letters "War Robots" to the general discussion description. Ya ive been to several other forums with android phones and never had that pop up. So wanted to find out whats going on |
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Post by [apotheosis] on Mar 14, 2017 15:56:50 GMT -5
I have never gotten that here.
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Post by BLYTHE on Mar 14, 2017 19:34:36 GMT -5
It's practically impossible to get a virus on an android device.
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Post by nightmarepatrol on Mar 17, 2017 15:01:04 GMT -5
It's practically impossible to get a virus on an android device. It's not that difficult, all you have to be gullible or stupid. Sometimes the phones come with malware already in them. |
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Post by Strayed on Mar 17, 2017 16:55:43 GMT -5
It's practically impossible to get a virus on an android device. It's not that difficult, all you have to be gullible or stupid. Sometimes the phones come with malware already in them. Pretty sure he's thinking about iOS. Android is open platform unlike iOS which is a closed OS. |
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Post by nightmarepatrol on Mar 17, 2017 18:42:12 GMT -5
Oh IOS has some pretty slick malware that's loose in it too. After all Mac Stuff is BSD Unix based, Android is linux based. They're more alike than they are different. Apple does a good job of vetting their stuff, but they aren't perfect. Googls has gotten a lot better as of late. The big problem is still people going outside their respective ecosystems to get apps. Then there's always the dreaded flashlight apps and those other apps that want access to your entire phone, yet people just click "okay" like a flashlight needs to have the run of their phone.  |
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Post by Sgt. Beacon on Mar 20, 2017 20:27:07 GMT -5
Or the easy answer; they're just watching too much 「popcorn」.
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Post by blastronaut on Mar 20, 2017 20:29:51 GMT -5
To run the Test Server you have to enable "untrusted sources" on Android. Maybe you didn't reenable it?
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Post by 3castle on Mar 20, 2017 20:41:51 GMT -5
Or the easy answer; they're just watching too much 「popcorn」. lol isnt that obvious? |
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Post by ŞĆĦŇIŦŽ€Ł on Mar 21, 2017 9:03:43 GMT -5
I'm late to the discussion, but worry not, even though there's no tech support sub forum here, some of us are tech savvy people and tech lovers in general.
I've only been getting those standard banner ads on the desktop view (android-chrome) on my android devices, no full screen popups (although i get them occasionally (rarely) when visiting other sites) on this forum.
When i do get these popups, the first thing i do is use the trash file cleaner on my phone to clean old/unused files left over from deleted apps, if I'm feeling especially paranoid, I'll go into the file manager and start deleting files that seem shady..
What I recommend you do is just download a cache cleaner like Clean Master (yes I know CM is more of a lie, but it does work to some extent), turn off "allow installation from unknown sources" (settings > Security > unknown sources). If you feel especially daring, manually delete those shady apps. Though if your device is rooted, i dont recommend it, in case you delete a key file that leads to bricking your device (I am not to be held accountable)
Lastly, nothing is unhackable. Security is an illusion. Anti-Virus software only protects against known threats. It rarely protects against zerodays.
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