Hi, recently I've noticed everytime I boot my phone up, I find a blue star on the status bar and when I pull it down it's always something different. Currently it says "BLOCK Ads Now! Scan Now (Free)"
I did a virus scan with avg, avast, and lookout and got nothing. It's really annoying, I've cleared all caches, browser history, everything. What can I do?
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They are airpush ads. You installed an app that uses the airpush AD network. Virus software or malware scanners won't pick this up as a virus....cuz....it isn't a virus, just annoying.
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Babydoll25 said:
They are airpush ads. You installed an app that uses the airpush AD network. Virus software or malware scanners won't pick this up as a virus....cuz....it isn't a virus, just annoying.
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That makes sense, any way of removing it?
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Uninstall whatever app is causing the problem.
I had that because of a theme for Go Launcher (Go ICS Theme, to be exact), uninstalling it seems to have fixed the issue.
Addons Detector (free in Market) will show what is pushing ads.... also, AppBrain App Market app now includes an Ad detector as well.
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Addons Detector (free in Market) will show what is pushing ads.... also, AppBrain App Market app now includes an Ad detector as well.
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+1!!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brosmike.airpushdetector
This works too..
Thanks guys! I used an ad detector and found an app I recently updated that was causing my troubles
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rccar said:
Thanks guys! I used an ad detector and found an app I recently updated that was causing my troubles
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It might be helpful if you posted which app?
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shaggyskunk said:
It might be helpful if you posted which app?
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I unrooted my TB yesterday and now when I open market it is the old version and will not update anyone know a fix?
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Go to settings, applications, manage apps, then go to all, find market, click force stop, then clear data and cache, then reopen market.
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ThatFool said:
I unrooted my TB yesterday and now when I open market it is the old version and will not update anyone know a fix?
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Sometimes it just takes a while to update to the new market.
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When I reflashed mine yesterday, it showed the "old" market.. and even trying AppBrain to bring some of my apps down, NHL Game Center Live wasn't found in Market at first, even though NHL Game Center FREE and Premium were...
after a couple reboots, and about 30 min Market upgraded itself, and after a little while longer, NHL Game Center Live was found and I was able to install it.
Ya sometimes it does take a while. Just make sure you don't have market updater frozen.
how do you know if it is frozen?
ThatFool said:
how do you know if it is frozen?
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Go into titanium backup and if its blue its frozen.
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My TB isn't rooted
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So after 4 days my phone hasn't updated the market!! What's wrong??
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I got it
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Lately every time I reboot my phone, an ad appears in my notification bar. And now one just popped up without even a reboot. Could anyone tell me why these might be appearing?
I've got a thunderbolt running ThunderShed v1.3 CM7.2.0 RC1. I also run ad-free and its up to date.
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There's been a number of posts about this. Its an advertising system called air push. Use add on detector from android market to identify the app and uninstall it.
Ad blockers won't block them.
Dave
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Okay. Thank you!
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Airpush ads
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Banner ads take a lot of place in app so i thought that it would be better...
kofii12345 said:
Banner ads take a lot of place in app so i thought that it would be better...
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And I thought Google banned this type of a service from the market.
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amerkiller1995 said:
Airpush ads
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Download app called airblocker
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OP, have you used apps that uses air push? There are some who feels that it violates their phone 's personal space.
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Every time you can stop pushes on airpush site or you can not accept eula and app will still works. But my app is not spammer and i do not want to do it paid.
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I just recently started getting this notification in my notification bar:
It is a red star and when I pull down the notifications it states: Increase Speed here, optout: xapus... and that is all I can see. If I click on it it takes me to a page advertising "Boost Your Signal!". When you click on that it takes you to the playstore for an app called Signal Booster from Fred Baker.
I consider this spam but don't know how to get rid of it.
I am currently running Hyperdrive 12 with Zeus kernal.
Thanks,
Glenn
Download AirPush Detector in the store, that should be able to locate the offending app.
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I always leave a 1 star review for airpush apps and delete. Garbage.
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Ad Blocking apps also help (even though I think they're rather unethical)
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Should I be worried?
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Where did you get the apk from?
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Should I be worried?
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I've never heard of this, if you received the apk from the play store it is safe, if you downloaded from another URL it probably has malware injected.
I got the apk from the app store. It's a strange one. I just submitted to avast for verification.
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ic3burn-IRL- said:
I got the apk from the app store. It's a strange one. I just submitted to avast for verification.
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That is really strange. I just copied the .apk from my device and ran a scan on it on my Windows machine with ESET. ESET found every part of it to be clean, so then I moved the file to my Linux machine and checked it with ClamAV, which also showed it as clean. Odd.
You took one step ahead of me and submitted it to avast. I'd love to see what it comes back as.
It was only after a recent avast update. It flagged a couple of apps including Google currents and music as issues but everything had been downloaded or updated from the play store. I'm aware of downloading from unknown sources and the possibility of dodgy apps on the play store but I'm sure I didn't dl anything bad.
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Avast issue in this case, contact them