[Q] Increase Speed Spam!! - Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III

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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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?
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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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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.
DoctorQMM said:
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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+1
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justin94 said:
It's still part of the notifications. When they are turned on you get 3 lines to three right of it
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Any way to make it disappear?
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I think it has something to do with GPS. I was curious of it too and I read about it in the manual.
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