might be in wrong place but tablet has www.google-mobile.sheildsviruses.com warning

Lost Boy

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Aug 9, 2016
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08/09/2016 - when I use browser on a Samsung table it get the warning "Mobile infections (4) dangerous viruses, because viewing porn sites?

Your phone has (13) serious viruses and we noticed that you phone is damaged (28.1%) It has 13 dangerous viruses from porn sites and you SIM card will be damaged as well as you contacts, photos and information"

It has a button to click to go get step by step instructions on how to remove these viruses. The only thing on the tablet are children's games that my kids downloaded, some pictures and that is about it. I did not click the button for the instructions as it seemed like a scam, but clearly the tablet has something on it.

first noticed it 08/09/2016 about 8pm cst when we used the tablet for a google search to see how many cities named minneaplolis there are in the US (3 btw). I ended up on a site called cha-cha or something like that. And when I scrolled down I got the pop up. I turned off the tablet and rebooted. did the same search and went to same website and got same warning. So can you help with a tablet? Is there a separate place/website for tablets that you know of?

I did a web search and they say it is malware and a scam (I am shocked). Anyway I was wondering on how to get rid of it and I could not see info on virus removal from tablets. Any ideas?
 

jamescv7

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Have you try to download a security program to scan your tablet?

Actually you should not be infected immediately by accidentally struck on scary virus message unless you download the file.
 
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Ink

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Jan 8, 2011
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Do you get popups on other sites, or ad-free sites such as Wikipedia?
 
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