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Dear friends, when I come here, I fully understand how I will be criticized, but still, those who understand - please help me with the problem of connecting to the casino site https://www.getslots.com/. Recently, when I realized that I liked gambling, I managed to try dozens of official and unofficial sites, even verification took place at bookmakers merged from the casino. So far, the middle ground has not been found. However, friends are actively playing on the getslots website. Although, on the other hand, what friends they are to me when they don't say "How to connect to the site..."
The crux of the problem is that I can't access this site. I tried everything I could: incognito mode, several different browsers, cache cleaning, various extensions, free proxy (and I changed the region, tried to connect from the states, and even European vpn didn't help). Can you imagine? - I even reinstalled the system, some horror!!! In the end, there were only one small change when I decided to buy a quality proxy. If the above methods used the page in the browser to write "Failed to connect to the server," then with the help of a paid one - just the page loads endlessly and the picture does not even appear.
I don't know what to do anymore! Of course, I can just look for another casino, but it's a matter of principle. Besides, people advised me for a reason, so everything is fine there and without deception. If you know this, please help me, I would be very grateful!!!!

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[Q] Google Play incompatibility workaround - is there one that works?

Sorry to apparently flout the warning about poking my noobish nose in to post about something non-ROM related, but since this is a development and hacking section, I figure I must be in the right place.
I've been googling and futzing around with build.prop to no avail, so I figure I should ask someone with a clue before I go and kill my install or even brick my phone, I dunno.
Is there any sort of hack on this file that tells Play what CPU/GPU/etc you have but also says, I'll be the judge of what's compatible, thanks?
Or is there some other method?
Maybe some folks have started a Play mirror on the sly...? Surely I'm one of millions who are cheesed off about not having any way around this silliness.
Two possibilities, right?
Either there's an answer, or this is an issue which deserves the attention of folks with the talent to address it.
Anyone care to give me a clue which it is?
Well, here's a workaround of sorts: try to find what you're after at mobile.brothersoft.com, where the site simply asks you what your phone is, and lets you save it wherever.
If you want to try another model, don't bother choosing a different one via the site's controls, because the initial drop-downs you identified your phone with are no longer available (instead you have to choose from pages and pages of poorly-identified entries, half of which are missing pics). Just delete your cookies for that site and choose again.
Play told me Google Goggles wouldn't work for some reason; I told the Brothersoft site my Galaxy Mini was a Pop 1559 (pretty similar as far as I can tell), downloaded the app, and bingo.
Now to have a look for all that other stuff Google told me wouldn't work...
...Actually, there's no need to tell the Brothersoft site any lies; it doesn't enforce Google's 'incompatibility' call, or even tell you about it.
Why did it take me so long to come across that joint after searching high and low for a fix? I tried enough angles... seems both obvious and obscure at the same time.

[Completed] Identify, locate, eliminate and prevent malware on several devices.

Hey guys!
This is my first post here, and I come with a problem that affects 2/3 android devices and possibly one desktop PC (Windows).
The problem:
I have malware on my devices and said malware redirects my current page to a russian advertising one. Most of the time i'm redirected to one that activates the vibration, knows the device i'm currenty using and says that I should run a virus scan with AVG.
If I hit return, the page just reloads, If I hit it enough times, I lose the page I was visiting as if I hadn't visited it in the first place.
Here
Code:
imgur.com/a/5dvVR
are some of the URLs I'm redirected to and sometimes, I happen to suffer the problem on the last page, where an ad sits in the middle of the page I'm visiting and If I close it, another tab opens and leads me to the addresses above.​
Symptoms:
This problem happens with Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and the built-in browser of "Reddit is fun".
This problem happens with and without a WiFi connection. It is more common to happen while on WiFi vs on mobile.
Sites like knowyourmeme.com, foxtrotalfa.jalopnik.com and albums on imgur.com can trigger the malware.​
Devices:
Definitively affected:
Lg G2 D-802 , Android 4.4.2
Galaxy Tab S 10.5" SM-T800, Android 5.0.2
Probably affected but not 100% proven:
Huawei Y600 (another carrier, but the problem happened on my GF's WiFi rarely on mobile), workphone
A desktop PC (the ad blocking the page happened just once)
Networks
This desktop PC is my GF's. It's in her WiFi signal that I usually connect and update the apps on my devices. In my house's WiFi the problem seems to happen as well on my devices but not on my Desktop PC (or perhaps it does, but I have ublock origin on my browsers).
However, I can trigger this problem on my G2's carrier Movistar and not on the Huawei's Carrier Telcel.​
Working on the problem:
Disabling scripts
The very first thing I did was testing disabling scripts (as suggested by one page I found on google), It did work, to some extent. However, I knew that this wasn't a solution but a workaround.​
Suspicious APPs
I know that apps are the main entrance for malware and since the problem DID happened on both devices (G2 and Galaxy Tab) It.HAD to be a common app, so I made a list of common apps and started by the less trustworthy.
I uninstalled and tested Advice animal creator, BS player free, zooper pro, Days counter widget, Disk Usage,electrodroid, ****ing weather, Google tasks organizer lite, GPS test, meme generator, system info for android,reddit is fun , add watermark and Think.
Keep in mind that these apps fill the criteria in which both are present on the phone and tablet and are suspicious to me (a very ambiguous term), however, I'm not stating that any of these have malware on them.
Sadly, after uninstalling and testing on the phone, the problem persisted.​
G2's Factory restoration (Through options menu, not recovery menu)
After going through a factory restoration on the phone, the problem persisted. The only things I had installed were Reddit is fun, facebook and whatsapp.​My request to you guys:
After all ofthis wall of text (in which I show the symptoms, what I've done, etc) , here comes my request.
Can you guys point me to the right direction?
I just don't want to wipe my devices without knowing what is the problem, how to eliminate it and, MOST IMPORTANTLY, how to prevent it.
What I want to discard is if the problem comes from my GF's network (If that is the case, a factory-through-recovery restoration would be useless), an app or just random malvertising.
I would hate to wipe my cellphone and tablet everytime I jump into this problem and that is not practical for me, I prefer a head-on approach.
Thanks in advance guys!​
Hi!
First, here is a little info on avoiding Malware, http://forum.xda-developers.com/general/general/guide-simple-steps-to-avoid-installing-t3000682
And another, http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6/general/guide-little-guide-to-security-privacy-t3042460
As far as Malware you already have....there are malware removal tools on the Play Store...many of them to try.
And if all else fails, here are the device sections or the mobile devices you have.....you could ask for help in the Q&A sections...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g2
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-tab-s
Now, if you want to ask about all in one, and the PC....you could try asking or help here...http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/help
Good luck!
Darth said:
Hi!
First, here is a little info on avoiding Malware, http://forum.xda-developers.com/general/general/guide-simple-steps-to-avoid-installing-t3000682
And another, http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-6/general/guide-little-guide-to-security-privacy-t3042460
As far as Malware you already have....there are malware removal tools on the Play Store...many of them to try.
And if all else fails, here are the device sections or the mobile devices you have.....you could ask for help in the Q&A sections...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-g2
http://forum.xda-developers.com/galaxy-tab-s
Now, if you want to ask about all in one, and the PC....you could try asking or help here...http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/help
Good luck!
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Thanks Darth!
But as I said, I tried several apps and didn't find anything wrong.
However, I switched my focus to the possibility of a router infection, and oh surprise it seems to be the rootcause.
Here are some links that report being redirected on several devices to ads pages (I use code since I can't post links in a new account), in this case adsmatte.com:
Code:
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/protect/forum/protect_other-protect_scanning/how-to-get-rid-of-adsmattecom-adware-opening/06b20667-586a-4ebd-9876-6d28c8528a1f?page=1
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7052365
http://forums.androidcentral.com/moto-g-2014/528571-adware-redirects-most-websites-how-can-i-get-rid.html
http://www.asus.com/zentalk/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=8189&extra=&page=1
Then I tried searching for the page I get redirected to, somethingsomething.epara.ru, so I searched that last common part epara.ru (I thought I had done this before ):
Code:
http://forum.kaspersky.com/index.php?showtopic=334600
https://warosu.org/g/thread/S50749199
http://www.xataka.com/respuestas/malware-adware-en-todos-mis-dispositivos (SPANISH)
What is VERY suspicious is that many of the results, suggest downloading "Spy hunter".
Here are some examples:
Code:
http://solvepcproblem.com/remove-359198-epara-ru/
http://removevirusvideo.com/stop-epara-ru-from-redirecting-epara-ru-removal-tips/
Now, how do you solve it?
Simple:
Disconnect from any WiFi, clear your browser's cache (and even your OS's). CCleaner does a pretty good job for this.
Then go to your suspicious router and factory reset it (or ask your ISP to do that remotely) and update its firmware. After all thosesteps, you can connect again.
What the malware does is change your DNS towards a malicious one.
I haven't done that reset to my GF's router, but that should solve the problem.
Thansk for everything, and I hope this works for somebody else!
Glad you got it sorted. If you want to find further help on anything, use the links I suggested... And if you want to post info to help others, you could post here, http://forum.xda-developers.com/general/general
I'll close this thread now.
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Some kind of chrome malware -how to remove?

Hey there ,
my office computer got infected with some sort of adware evil thing ,
Once or twice a day , when browsing to a website (no matter which) I get an iFrame with an overlay saying : "sponsored by [url I'm browsing to] and then it redirects me to some kind of an full page ad for some sort of naughty online gaming (I forgot the name but next time it happens I'll update here).
Anyway , this is the iframe html :
HTML:
<div class="asgds_content"><div class="asgds_header"><button class="asgds_close">x</button><h4 class="asgds_title">Sponsored by google.com </h4></div><div class="asgds_body"><iframe src="https://extsgo.com/view/teasers?id=191753" style="height: 873px; width: 100%;"></iframe></div><div class="asgds_footer"><button class="asgds_close_text">Close</button></div></div>
searching google for extsgo.com/view/teasers gives me nothing...
using chrome 53.0.2785.143 m on Windows 8.1
Who can help me with removing this stupid thing?
Thanks a lot.
Full Screen Flash might be the culprit?
I've had the same problem. I noticed when I uninstalled Full Screen Flash that it redirected me to extsgo.com as well... given some of the reviews intermittently complaining of advertising redirects, I think it's a distinctly possible culprit. Do you have that extension installed?
For what it's worth, this happened on both my home and work machines and Chrome is the only thing really shared between them. Home has MalwareBytes and McAfee, work has Trend Micro. No malware hits on either end, so I'm quite certain that some Chrome extension or another is responsible.
i had full screen flash shut it off and it solved the problem
well ,
it must be something else , since I never heard about this chrome extension...
Would appreciate more ideas about this issue.
Thanks
Hey ,
I think I got the name of this adware , it's called adnow , any reliable removal tool / guide?
Thanks
Me too
I have managed to end up with this thing too. I've seen it injected into both a site I'm hosting locally and sites across the web (both in Chrome; not seeing it injected when I'm in Firefox). I did not notice it until recently, as I typically use EFF's Privacy Badger, which blocks the actual injection script from loading. I've seen it block requests to extsgo.com and st.adxxx.com, neither of which is related to the local build of the project I'm working on where I see it injected.
It's definitely something (presumably an extension) that is getting synced via Chrome sync as I've noticed it in a Windows 10 installation on one machine and within a Linux VM inside a Windows 7 host OS on a different machine. All software fully up to date.
I see nothing I'm not expecting in terms of extensions and I do not have the "Full screen Flash" extension. Windows Defender has not found anything on the Win 10 install, nor on the Windows 7 one.
Is it perhaps another extension that got hijacked? I know sometimes developers sell extensions and malware makers acquire them for the instantly-installed userbase. Everything in the Chrome Web Store is supposedly scanned, of course, so who knows.
Anyone have any other ideas?
Thanks!
~tw
---------- Post added at 02:13 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:19 PM ----------
Insert jQuery (not including link; you'll know if you have it) appears to have been the culprit extension. The behaviour I was seeing is consistent with this description: gist.github.com/jimbo1qaz/bc73a2491f0c39b7f206359f089dd79c complete with the redirection to a shady fake magazine URL when I uninstalled Insert jQuery, the issues went away. So this is consistent with a rash of extensions getting updated with updates that include new malware. I originally intended to install that extension....several years ago. I've been using it occasionally ever since.
(My) case closed.
This just happened to me as well. Exactly once on my work computer, then once on my home computer a few hours later, different sites. Both chrome, but different accounts and mostly different extensions. I'll compare extension lists and post the common ones when I get back to my work computer tomorrow. But I don't have either of the mentioned extensions installed.
This thread was the only google result for the url.
Edit: googling the id of the modal div, "asgds_modal", leads to a reddit thread with a few people complaining. They pointed out two new extensions, "http headers" and "w3schools hider". I'm guessing my culprit is the http headers one, as it is on both my computers.
I figured it out.
Live HTTP Headers extension is the culprit. A couple of days ago I checked that it was giving a 404 error for the JS script it was requesting from an AWS server. I thought some one would buy it. And the same thing happened I guess. The chrome web store page is not working for that extension. Most probably because it is removed. But, you people should uninstall that from your chrome browsers.
ant96 said:
Live HTTP Headers extension is the culprit. A couple of days ago I checked that it was giving a 404 error for the JS script it was requesting from an AWS server. I thought some one would buy it. And the same thing happened I guess. The chrome web store page is not working for that extension. Most probably because it is removed. But, you people should uninstall that from your chrome browsers.
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Thank you man, you're my hero.
Hi guys!
I really need your help here please
I seem to have encountered a similar problem as you but i don't have the header http extension you all talked about
it's happen to me only on chrome in different sites, i get this "sponsored by adnow" ads
and i'm not sure what to do, it's on the exact same place where outbrain or taboola show their ads, and its cover it.
i think but not sure that the div id is sc_tblock_319318 and from what i understand it's block the original ad(by outbrain in this case and then it recreate a new one
Is there anyone here who could help me please? really i tried almost every thing...
sorry if my english is not perfect
and thanks in advance!

Four Virus on Xperia Oreo 8.0.0

I am unable to remove annoying pop coming from any web browser I tried to install and use on my new Xperia Premium XZ including Chrome and Firefox. It looks like my phone gets DNS hijacked and randomly few times a day it pops this message - see attached screenshots.
I tried to Google solution, none I found worked including clearing data and cache of these apps, completely reinstalling them.
I tried premium Adware Malwarebytes and it does not detect anything wrong with the phone.
I also activated premium version of AVG but full scan has not discovered any issues.
At this point I ran out of options.
I can't believe there is no clear explanation anywhere about this so called Four Virus neither reference about it with respect to Oreo 8.0.0.
Am I the only Oreo user which has this issue?
Reseting my phone to factory defaults is last thing I would want but could do. Just trying to see other options before executing such drastic solution.
Any ideas are very appreciated.
Hi there
You caught a simple flu, but u probably need Safe Mode to remove it. Follow instructions here => https://forums.androidcentral.com/a...30081-guide-malware-adware-popup-removal.html
Good luck, and keep us posted,
Van
This is well-known problem, widely described on the Net. There's nothing wrong with your phone. There's no malware on the phone itself, which is why the anti-malware tools do not find anything.
What you see is a result of a server-side problem. Either the web page you were trying to visit got hijacked, or an ad provider that displays ads on that page got hijacked, or some DNS entry got hijacked. They used some kind of server-side exploit to redirect your browser to the above fake page. It is ordinary scareware, trying to scare you into purchasing a piece of software you don't really need (and it is useless crap anyway). If you were visiting a legitimate web site at the time this popup appeared, the site owners are most likely already aware of the problem. They will fix it shortly and the problem will go away.
At this time, just to make sure noting is cached on our phone after they fix the issue, a good idea might be to find your browser app in the app list and as Android to clear app data.

Phishing Attack via Google Assistant?

Hey all and thanks in advance for any help you can provide as I have been racking my brain trying to figure this one out, but keep falling flat. A few days ago I received a Google Assistant notification on my Nexus 5X running the current stock Android (no rooting or modification on this device in any way). It was bringing to my attention an "important" email about one of my credit cards. I was immediately suspicious as this was the first time I had ever gotten a notification of this kind from Google Assistant. Usually it is sports score updates, bill reminders, breaking news, etc... But it did appear to be a legitimate Google Assistant notification so I did click it (I later confirmed this as I checked my notification history and it did show up as a Google App notification). It then opened Google Assistant, but then immediately opened either Chrome itself or a Chrome custom tab. The address that it opened appeared to be the legitimate Gmail domain, and unless it was using non Latin characters then I have no reason to believe otherwise. Not only that but it was showing an already opened email claiming to be from one of my credit card companies stating that there were important changes to their policies and/or my account.
It was at this point that I knew something was amiss. Images were being blocked in the email and just the whole process seemed "off". I opened Inbox/Gmail on my desktop and sure enough there was no such email there, it was at this point that I knew beyond doubt it was a scam. I was very careful not to click anything in the email but I could see that the "To:" label was to my legitimate email address and the "From:" address was typical of a phishing/scam email (eg. the name of the credit card company but with some kind of modifier attached). I wish I would have taken a screenshot of it, but it all caught me off guard. If it happens again believe me I will.
What made this all even weirder was when I tried to access this link on my desktop as I wanted to try and run some tests on the link that it was trying to get me to click on. I went on my Chrome history to track the link down but it was not there. So I checked my Chrome history on my phone and sure enough it showed up there, but not on my desktop. It was the only link not showing up on my desktop's Chrome history, all other links were there and I could see the same two links that were before and after the link in my phone's Chrome history but not that one. I have since factory reset my phone to be on the safe side and sure enough on my new install that link is also not showing up there either.
Now I am fairly well versed in tech, am very disciplined in "think before you click", and pride myself in being able to spot a scam - but I am also no expert and this is where I am needing some help in figuring out what exactly happened. I need to figure out if my device was compromised or if there is any way a malicious actor could have triggered my Google Assistant to open up a link like it did.
There is more to this story though which makes it a bit more complicated. Towards the beginning of the year I had a credit card that got compromised, this credit card was from the same company that the scam email was claiming to be from. Luckily I have alerts turned on and I was able to spot it almost immediately and reported it. The card was cancelled and I received a new one. I had my suspicions about how it was compromised but nothing for sure (I have never had a security problem like this, and I had recently used a website that I had never used before to purchase something - not damning itself but definitely suspicious). A couple months later and it happened again. At this point I was about 95% sure which website had compromised it. I believe the website itself was not malicious but that it's database had been breached, meaning the card only became compromised if it was "stored" in my account as a payment option. Also of note was that I have two cards with this particular company and only the one card I used on this website was compromised, not both cards nor the account itself (no other cards, companies, or payment options either). Further confirmation of my suspicions are that since I narrowed which website I thought that it was and it has not happened again.
My whole reason brining all of that up is that without it, to me anyways it would seem like my device is compromised. But with that story, and the fact that scam email was obviously phishing for my login credentials to that company makes it seem like someone somehow figured out a way to trigger my Google Assistant. Not only that, but triggered it to open up someone else's Gmail in a Chrome tab with an email already opened. Is that even possible? Do third party apps or services have this kind of access to Google Assistant? If not, it would seem to indicate for certain that my device is/was compromised, yeah?
As I already stated, I have since factory reset my phone, and every website and service I use has strong passwords and 2FA with alerts turned on if possible. But without knowing exactly how this attack was possible I still feel vulnerable. I have seen many phishing attacks in my day but this one seemed personalized, not mass targeted like the other which also makes me worry (again, even more so since I am not certain how this one happened). Plus I am worried that if it was my device that was compromised then a factory reset may not be enough. Many, many thanks for anyone who has a more intimate knowledge of Google's developer ecosystem that can help.
[EDIT} I will continue to add some things here that I think may be relevant to diagnosing this issue.
I was not doing anything at the time that this notification was sent. I was not even on my phone - I use Pushbullet to get notifications on my desktop and it was there that I first noticed it. And honestly, I do not even use my phone that much as I am near my desktop almost all the time. The rare times that I do use it, it is for listening to music or podcasts, almost no web browsing at all and very little app usage.
I was at home at the time of the notification, meaning no public or untrusted Wi-Fi. Nor at risk of any bluetooth type attack either.
I do use a VPN at all times.

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