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<blockquote data-quote="SeaMonster" data-source="post: 778286" data-attributes="member: 75708">Thank you very much for answering, [USER=74974]@stepseven84[/USER] I thought the exact same thing you did, like what malware would just come up and say hey I&#039;m malware in bold letters. But since this has happened to someone else too and I&#039;m not able to understand what it was really. It seemed like a warning notification message that attackers might steal your message and yet it had a download progress bar beneath it which is so unusual.The only apps I have downloaded recently are some security apps, like Malwarebytes and Norton. I didn&#039;t keep them on my phone though, I was using them for a one time scan of my phone cause a particular app was crashing a lot. That was before this incident.After this incident, I ran scans with Kaspersky Trial version, McAfee free, Sophos and Norton free. May have used Avast free too don&#039;t remember. All full/deep scans, nothing was detected. I also have Knox protection active on my phone from day 1 as it is a Samsung device.And truth be told, I consider myself a safe user. I never install apps from third party stores or apks or anything, don&#039;t torrent, don&#039;t even browse a lot though I&#039;m browsing now thanks to all this. That some malware would have gotten on my device anyway surprises me, but guess you can never be 100% safe. I am logged into Fb on another device but from a different account, and this has not happened there (not to my knowledge anyway). I will try logging into this particular account from another device, on my device it was a one time incident; after updating the app and accessing it again, nothing of this sort happened again that day.Thanks for answering! Appreciate it. If anyone&#039;s able to find out anything about this particular message, would be grateful if you posted it here. Peace of mind to conclusively know what it waa...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SeaMonster, post: 778286, member: 75708"] Thank you very much for answering, [USER=74974]@stepseven84[/USER] I thought the exact same thing you did, like what malware would just come up and say hey I'm malware in bold letters. But since this has happened to someone else too and I'm not able to understand what it was really. It seemed like a warning notification message that attackers might steal your message and yet it had a download progress bar beneath it which is so unusual. The only apps I have downloaded recently are some security apps, like Malwarebytes and Norton. I didn't keep them on my phone though, I was using them for a one time scan of my phone cause a particular app was crashing a lot. That was before this incident. After this incident, I ran scans with Kaspersky Trial version, McAfee free, Sophos and Norton free. May have used Avast free too don't remember. All full/deep scans, nothing was detected. I also have Knox protection active on my phone from day 1 as it is a Samsung device. And truth be told, I consider myself a safe user. I never install apps from third party stores or apks or anything, don't torrent, don't even browse a lot though I'm browsing now thanks to all this. That some malware would have gotten on my device anyway surprises me, but guess you can never be 100% safe. I am logged into Fb on another device but from a different account, and this has not happened there (not to my knowledge anyway). I will try logging into this particular account from another device, on my device it was a one time incident; after updating the app and accessing it again, nothing of this sort happened again that day. Thanks for answering! Appreciate it. If anyone's able to find out anything about this particular message, would be grateful if you posted it here. Peace of mind to conclusively know what it waa... [/QUOTE]

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