I keep getting popups:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
When I hit the 'back' button I get:
Something is also opening Google Play to a page for a specific app. I haven't paid much attention but the last time it was for a dating app. I thought that maybe I hit the advertising banner on some page or another, but I've been more careful about that and these still keep coming up.
I'm running 5.0.1, not rooted and using the Nova launcher. The only unauthorized (not from the Play Store) app installed is one I wrote.
Where are these coming from?
Thanks!
You're not hacked, those are popups which website use to infect/earn money on people. Just don't tap on it and you should be fine.
Yes, you've been hacked by anonymous.
Thanks.
I wonder how they can be blocked.
HankB said:
Thanks.
I wonder how they can be blocked.
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Install Sophos Security or AVG antivirus and run a full scan on your device.
HankB said:
Thanks.
I wonder how they can be blocked.
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Security software, or even AdAway should do it.
I had already tried CM and it found no threats beyond a lot of cookies. I uninstalled it and tried Sophos. It identified Real Piano as an app that could serve unwanted ads. I uninstalled Real Piano and so far have not seen these popups any more.
HankB said:
I had already tried CM and it found no threats beyond a lot of cookies. I uninstalled it and tried Sophos. It identified Real Piano as an app that could serve unwanted ads. I uninstalled Real Piano and so far have not seen these popups any more.
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I'm glad Sophos helped. People believe that there are no malware threats on Android. Unsolicited adware can even be more bothersome as they are installed inside of applications but can run whether or not the application is active (malware!)
You might be interested in Mobile Security|NowSecure (ViaForensics) for further insight into where your installed applications are connecting.
HankB said:
I had already tried CM and it found no threats beyond a lot of cookies. I uninstalled it and tried Sophos. It identified Real Piano as an app that could serve unwanted ads. I uninstalled Real Piano and so far have not seen these popups any more.
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Occasionally, some sites (including xda several months ago) will serve up similar fake (scareware) ads when they detect a mobile Android device. If you have installed adaway, these ads are usually not presented. Or if you aren't rooted, try out Ghostery browser from the play store. Works pretty good too.
Make sure you have the option to install from unknown sources (settings/security) disabled as a precaution.
(If you notice these ads on reputable sites, do contact the site administrators. XDA got the issue fixed 2-3 days after I reported it to them)
HankB said:
Thanks.
I wonder how they can be blocked.
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install Mozilla and use adblock plus addon.
I get failed to open that page, Im using adblock from the link below.
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1916098
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Recently, I found that the "Android System Info" app below is using Flurry Agent to send data / report via 3G/internet whenever I start using it. At least, it came out in the logging.
Do you know any alternative that does not use Flurry Agent?
I hate that thing because it uses 3G/internet and it cannot be disabled
I know Astrid is using Flurry Agent as well, but it can be disabled.
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"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
i believe that is for the download of the ADs to sustain their income & development
use Adfree perhpas?
Well, I think that is not ads ... Ads should be the AdMob SDK or something in the logging.
Flurry Agent is about analytic:
http://www.flurry.com/
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=673146
To be honest, I don't mind with ads ... Especially if that can support the dev and the app is good.
But, I don't like sending usage pattern, statistical data, usage analysis, that kind of things.
AllGamer said:
i believe that is for the download of the ADs to sustain their income & development
use Adfree perhpas?
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Many devs find analytics to be important information to them.
You could edit your hosts file manually to block any flurry.com urls...
Not rooted, you cant do that.
Good developer will add an option to disable this, like Astrid.
distortedloop said:
Many devs find analytics to be important information to them.
You could edit your hosts file manually to block any flurry.com urls...
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gogol said:
Not rooted, you cant do that.
Good developer will add an option to disable this, like Astrid.
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Your last sentence doesn't quite sit right for some reason, but I agree overall.
Something in the back of my mind tells me there's a revenue stream to the developers who include this. Like flurry pays them a royalty for data collected. That needs confirmation, but while many devs put stuff out for the love of the device, many more need to get some income off the app to stay interested in developing/maintaining it. We all want "free" apps, but we're going to have to get used to either paying up in cash, or paying up in seeing ads, or paying up by having some analytics collected on us.
I don't want my phone spied on either. Best thing you can do is uninstall the apps that spy on you without the feature to turn it off, give the app a 1-star rating on the market, and leave a comment that it collects analytics on you and you don't like that. Kind of lousy thing to do an app that's otherwise top-notch. If enough people uninstall and bad rate these apps, the devs will get the hint and stop doing it.
As for not rooted, there's no reason not to root the Nexus S. There are hundreds of reason to root, though. Blocking ads and spyware is just one of them.
You don't even have to unlock the bootloader to do it, easy instructions here; no loss of data with that method.
ok ive done a ton of searching and tried a bunch of apps with NOOOOO success
i get a push from notification every fewdays to a few times a day cant see a pattern or an app that is causing it they are for free ipads or something along them lines
ive tried to remove them by replying to them as they ask,
googling the website and reading some pretty bad stuff about them didnt make things any better
all the apps ive tried and have had zero results from them :
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.bartat.android.elixir
https://market.android.com/details?id=bt.android.elixir
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.antivirus
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.zrgiu.antivirus
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.airpush.optoutapp
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.brosmike.airpushdetector
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.denper.addonsdetector
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.bigtincan.android.adfree
they aren't coming from tmobile i called them
what causes this? and how do i fix it ? arent the airpush defender apps supposed to pick this stuff up?
Obviously an app you've installed is pushing apps to your notification bar. Try
https://market.android.com/details?...GwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5sb29rb3V0LmFkZGV0ZWN0b3IiXQ..
It may or may not find it, any suspicious apps you've downloaded since it started?
Do you run an ad blocker? I remember I had a problem like that myself then realized I hadn't configured my ad block app since doing a fresh ROM install and poof no more push ads. Of course I may have removed the offending app as well, I think I was also testing a folder apps at the time as well. But in theory something like Ad Free should block it since it would be uploaded from the web and blocking the DNS of that ad would cause that ad to no longer be able to put itself on the phone.
It seems obivous but right?
Also any idea why my browser crashes constantly
I'm downloading the app recommended in the above post ill let ya know how it goes
OK so that app got some results but I don't know any of them? So where are they coming from?
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
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Ad mob is Google ads.
I think the last time this issue was posted the person wiped then restored apps one at a time. It's the only thing I can see at this point, or repost in the Android general section since it will reach more people.
Sent from my LG-P999 using xda premium
Sent from my GT-P7510 using Tapatalki messed with the app some more I see what apps are being naughty. But the problem I see is almost all of my apps have some sort of offending process
Astro being one that kinda bothers me clockwork rom manager being another. The apps I have aren't games or gimmicky things they are tools to use the phone bloat freezer was one I deleted it
So right now the apps that are offenders are:
Astro
Slider
Wifi analizer
Notes lite
Rom manager (cwm)
Are Droid
GSM signal monitor
Ant tek app manager
Try something called airpush detector from the market.
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
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It looks kind of interesting I think I will review it on my blog in the category of funny android apps.
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Instant remove after your notification ads.
interesting idea...
Ads are ads and they are very important if you plan to release few apps in order to actually get some $ from it. It's simple as that and if there was a better solution, we'd take it. With that being said, I believe that free apps even with ads are better than pay-only apps that you rather see on iOS market.
Thanks guys!
@sharonlewis Cool. Appreciate it!
*snort* Right. So, push advertisements and probably even some nice malware, mh?
I think Leadbolt is a quite legit service and nobody has ever accused our apps of malware. Unless real proofs are there, no actions shall be taken except a smile when I read your message. If someone really has such a problem with push ads [damn, that one notification a day] there's an adblock available.
Ads are OK, but in the notification bar is not cool. That's involuntary, and that's a problem for the users.
I'm a dev myself, so not meaning to be rude .
Sent from my GT-I9300
werg said:
I think Leadbolt is a quite legit service and nobody has ever accused our apps of malware. Unless real proofs are there, no actions shall be taken except a smile when I read your message. If someone really has such a problem with push ads [damn, that one notification a day] there's an adblock available.
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So your telling me the app access my call log and GPS location for "harmless reasons"?
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Quote from Leadbolt site:
Security & storage
We take reasonable steps to protect all information which we hold from misuse, loss, from unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. All personal information is kept on a secure server and protected by firewall security systems to keep information secure and safe on our servers. Where we store information, we shall only store the information for as long as necessary in order to provide our services to you
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sharonlewis said:
Just wrote a short review about it, you can find it right here.
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Might want to review a spell check app sometime soon.
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bassie1995 said:
Ads are OK, but in the notification bar is not cool. That's involuntary, and that's a problem for the users.
I'm a dev myself, so not meaning to be rude .
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But they provide the best income,
right?
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"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
this app made my phone freaking slow! it just keep popping to start the accessibility service though it's on.app crashed when click to show,& app is really slow!log attached.
Sorry to hear that. I took a look at the logcat but it doesn't give me much to go on.
Can you tell me what device are you using, Android version, is it a custom ROM, do you have Google Services installed (it's required for the GMaps)? My guess is that for some reason your device is not returning the list of active accessibility services correctly or at all. If that is the case, then it's better for you to not use it, unfortunately.
Thanks!
killoid said:
this app made my phone freaking slow! it just keep popping to start the accessibility service though it's on.app crashed when click to show,& app is really slow!log attached.
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dferreira said:
Sorry to hear that. I took a look at the logcat but it doesn't give me much to go on.
Can you tell me what device are you using, Android version, is it a custom ROM, do you have Google Services installed (it's required for the GMaps)? My guess is that for some reason your device is not returning the list of active accessibility services correctly or at all. If that is the case, then it's better for you to not use it, unfortunately.
Thanks!
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my bad! i've not installed google play services on my device,so it's useless for me.
No problem
Cheers
killoid said:
my bad! i've not installed google play services on my device,so it's useless for me.
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Can we make it so that us ppl who's privacy is deeper can use it I myself don't run any Google apps or gapps package
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also would you mind posting app here
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Browsing internet(Chrome) on my phone has become a headache now. Every second website I open, generates a popup like this
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
and then I am redirected to another website
Pressing back button to return to the page that you were browsing also turns out to be futile. It culminates into another fake virus warning popup
It's not just my phone. Every Android phone I've encountered showcases this issue and browsing internet on android(Chrome) has become a pestering issue now.
somebody please come up with a solution!
What i have speculated is that the issue pertains to a malicious app.
Kindly refrain from posting solutions like
Clear Cache and Data of web browser
Format phone
Install reinstall web browser
They don't work.
its obviously some app you're installing or a malicious website you've been visiting
Looks like you've got a bit of malware. Try letting an antivirus program like AVG or Avast scan your phone.
Also, personally I prefer using Firefox, as it has Adblock Plus. (as a plugin, so no root required)
I don't think its a malware. Some websites have actually put up those type of ads where we are re-directed to the play store for download some cleaning app. I think a solution would be to request desktop site on chrome or as someone suggested just ditch chrome for Firefox with adblock support.
Hope it helps.
Sent from my GT-P3100 using XDA Free mobile app
Or since we're here on xda-forums, there's the possibility to install an adblocker apk to stop these ads with root methods ^^
You don't have malware. All my devices had the same issue. Sites just kept popping up ads and it was impossible to browse the web. After installing an adblocker everything is fine. If you're rooted try Adaway, if not - Adblock Plus (which is available also as an add-on for Firefox).
Hovatek said:
its obviously some app you're installing or a malicious website you've been visiting
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I am visiting XDA's website...I don't think that it is mailicaious...Is it??
ShadowLea said:
Looks like you've got a bit of malware. Try letting an antivirus program like AVG or Avast scan your phone.
Also, personally I prefer using Firefox, as it has Adblock Plus. (as a plugin, so no root required)
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I also think that I'll have to move to firefox now. Actually its not malware or anything. I've already made Avast virus scan as well as malwarebyte scan to ensure this. I think websites are putting such ads.
annoying app
Hello,
look for the apps you installed since you begin having this notifcation, and desintall it, or look for a malware scanner ( antivirus), it can helps
I would suggest using a different browser. But if you want a way to bypass sometimes it works to load the website in desktop view. And usually there is a close button somewhere in the left upper corner.. but I think you would have noticed.
If you think it's an ad on our website, please post it here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1696660