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new stock Android phone infected by adware already ?
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<blockquote data-quote="GrimBean" data-source="post: 709573" data-attributes="member: 69795"><p>Hi </p><p></p><p>All the Pop Up's I've seen since I had the phone are all different kinds of spoof pop ups. I've only seen <strong>one</strong> Amazon pop up which was the most recent occurance. All of the Pop-Ups only occurred when I was searching online. Can't remember all the sites they occurred on, except for the Amazon pop up. That happened when I was on Facebook.</p><p></p><p>So I ran a small test at first to see whether I may have picked up adw/malware. </p><p></p><p>I knew Chrome has the ability to sync a slew of options across multiple devices, from desktop computers to smartphones. With Chrome’s synchronization feature, you can have the same settings, bookmarks, extensions, logins, passwords, history, themes and even tabs open.</p><p>I do have a windows PC that I rarely, if ever go online anymore since it's no longer supported. But I remembered going online recently using Chrome on that PC. And that was right before the last Amazon pop up occurred on the phone. </p><p></p><p>So here's what I tested. I logged into my Google account on that PC. I went to the Google Activitiy page and opened some different tabs. Then I opened Chrome on my phone and under history I was looking at the same Google pages that I had open on the PC.</p><p></p><p>Now, I'm practically certain, that the PC is infected. So I'm suspecting that Chrome's sync shared the adw/malware to my phone.</p><p></p><p>So I needed to disable the saving and syncing on the PC version of Chrome because Chrome records them and syncs across all of devices that I'm logged into with my Google account. In addition, as soon as I log into a new device with my Google account, all of the previously synced data is brought over and saved to the new device.</p><p></p><p>So this is not a good scenario. If I have adware which can sync from one device to another, I don't want the PC to sync with any other device. I went in to Chrome's Advanced Sync Settings and found ALL settings were synced. So I unchecked ALL the boxes. I didn’t want anything to be included in sync.</p><p></p><p>I think this may have been the first step toward heading off any potential new adware. I will be downloading Malwarebytes on my android Essential phone soon to see if it finds any malware. My next step is to go into the network Admin settings on my Gateway and tinker around with the router.</p><p></p><p>Thanks for responding so quickly to my concerns that I sent regarding the issues I was having on my MalwareTips account ! This update I'm writing is on a different device that I didn't use to open my account. So everything looks to be good.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GrimBean, post: 709573, member: 69795"] Hi All the Pop Up's I've seen since I had the phone are all different kinds of spoof pop ups. I've only seen [B]one[/B] Amazon pop up which was the most recent occurance. All of the Pop-Ups only occurred when I was searching online. Can't remember all the sites they occurred on, except for the Amazon pop up. That happened when I was on Facebook. So I ran a small test at first to see whether I may have picked up adw/malware. I knew Chrome has the ability to sync a slew of options across multiple devices, from desktop computers to smartphones. With Chrome’s synchronization feature, you can have the same settings, bookmarks, extensions, logins, passwords, history, themes and even tabs open. I do have a windows PC that I rarely, if ever go online anymore since it's no longer supported. But I remembered going online recently using Chrome on that PC. And that was right before the last Amazon pop up occurred on the phone. So here's what I tested. I logged into my Google account on that PC. I went to the Google Activitiy page and opened some different tabs. Then I opened Chrome on my phone and under history I was looking at the same Google pages that I had open on the PC. Now, I'm practically certain, that the PC is infected. So I'm suspecting that Chrome's sync shared the adw/malware to my phone. So I needed to disable the saving and syncing on the PC version of Chrome because Chrome records them and syncs across all of devices that I'm logged into with my Google account. In addition, as soon as I log into a new device with my Google account, all of the previously synced data is brought over and saved to the new device. So this is not a good scenario. If I have adware which can sync from one device to another, I don't want the PC to sync with any other device. I went in to Chrome's Advanced Sync Settings and found ALL settings were synced. So I unchecked ALL the boxes. I didn’t want anything to be included in sync. I think this may have been the first step toward heading off any potential new adware. I will be downloading Malwarebytes on my android Essential phone soon to see if it finds any malware. My next step is to go into the network Admin settings on my Gateway and tinker around with the router. Thanks for responding so quickly to my concerns that I sent regarding the issues I was having on my MalwareTips account ! This update I'm writing is on a different device that I didn't use to open my account. So everything looks to be good. [/QUOTE]
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