Just over the past two days I've started getting a fake pop-up in my notifications that says I have an infected file and need to install "Snap Secure" (it has a green star in the front of the notification).
Clicking on it takes me to "explain.com", and offers to give me a free 7-day trial of said software, which I'm aware of and has a good reputation.
Is anyone else seeing this? I'm thinking it's one of the latest versions of apps using some newer version of an API that has a little snare in there to pop up the fake 'virus' notification. I have scanned my phone with "Webroot SecureAnywhere", Lookout, Norton's AV for mobile, etc - and all come up empty-handed.
Any ideas? My finger wants to point at something I've installed in the past few days like the new beta Swiftkey 3, Quickpic, RAMbooster, Flipboard (beta as well), "Viewdini" from Verizon, "Calculations" with currency, mortgage, tipping, etc functions or maybe even "1Weather" from OneLouder (makes TweetCaster, FriendCaster for Facebook, SportCaster & BaconReader), and Bittorent beta, "Super Video, Floating & Popup". Those are the only things I've added to my phone over the past week.
Surely I'm not the only one seeing this crap...
Download add-on detector or air-push detector from the play store.
Yep, it was "none of the above"
Got it - with "Add On Detector". "Mosquito Sound" had push notifications in it. Uninstalled (b!tch)!
I forgot about that one, it was on the evening news a couple of days ago. Ain't that special?!?!
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Hi,
Just got my NoDo about five hours ago, then almost 7 trial apps and games have been prompted by the tile to be updated:
1. Need for Speed
2. Doodle God
3. oh, I can't remember the rest
but one thing is certain, after the download and update of the apps, everything was removed from the live tile except 1: Doodle God. Now I remember posting this as annoyance whenever I update some apps and still warns me to update when I was at 7008(pre NoDo). I was answered back then that if the app is purchased (non-trial anymore) the update gets done and it won't appear again. Another thing is try to uninstall the trial app and install it again. That way you would install the latest updated trial-mode of the app.
That is what I was about to do to the Doodle God game, I uninstalled it and wanted it to buy for good. I am hesitant to buying it before since it only has one profile, which means only one person can play.
Now, I can't find Doodle God anymore, I tried using the developer site but the wp7 download link gives me the marketplace where it should suppose to have a try & buy button but the buttons are not there. The thumbnail and description of the game and the "show details" is there but there is just no download, try, or buy button.
Now I don't know if it was officially gone from the marketplace since I can't find it scrolling down to almost every game there is.
Is it just the post NoDo thing or what?
I had that happen to me a few times with certain apps (long before nodo), in that it wouldn't show a Try or Buy button.
The workaround that I figured out, is to open one of the thumbnails of the app, maybe swipe to a second image, then hit the back button. All buttons would then appear.
Haven't had to do that in a long while though, your results may vary.
But yeah, I don't see it anywhere. Could have gotten pulled for a number of reasons.
Trying to download it through Zune states "Bad Application Info"
So who knows. Would suck if it got pulled, looks like a cool game.
I'm trying to do it to the point that I wanted to reset my phone. The only thing that's keeping me from resetting it is the sms backup and restore, which wp7 currently doesn't have.
and yeah it's a cool and an addicting game. thanks
So I doubt everyone will use every feature of the device. I just want a feel for what things people have disabled/uninstalled.
My personal list:
Everything with the world Sprint was uninstalled or disabled. Sprint ID and Sprint installer can't be disabled.
BlurbCheckout - Is used to purchase physical photo albums. So NO.
Flipboard - I use News360
Google Play Magazines - Never will buy one
hp Print Service - Never will print
Lumen Toolbar - I will never use the stock browser.
Story Album
Story Album Widget - Never buying it
Swype - Using the stock keyboard for now
Yahoo! Finance - Don't care
I'm not sure if I should disable Samsung Apps or anything else.
M3wThr33 said:
So I doubt everyone will use every feature of the device. I just want a feel for what things people have disabled/uninstalled.
My personal list:
Everything with the world Sprint was uninstalled or disabled. Sprint ID and Sprint installer can't be disabled.
BlurbCheckout - Is used to purchase physical photo albums. So NO.
Flipboard - I use News360
Google Play Magazines - Never will buy one
hp Print Service - Never will print
Lumen Toolbar - I will never use the stock browser.
Story Album
Story Album Widget - Never buying it
Swype - Using the stock keyboard for now
Yahoo! Finance - Don't care
I'm not sure if I should disable Samsung Apps or anything else.
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I love the stock browser
I'm sure it's good, as is Chrome, except all my bookmarks and passwords are synced with Firefox. Makes everything 100x easier to just use that.
Good list. I also disabled Google Play Books, Google+, Samsung Push Service, Gmail and Chrome. I don't use any of those.
BTW, the stock browser does not support Flash. I'm using Boat Browser.
I have the stupid Sprint ID app install the default profile randomly again resetting all my home screens. It's happened on the S 4 and the HTC One on my account.
M3wThr33 said:
So I doubt everyone will use every feature of the device. I just want a feel for what things people have disabled/uninstalled.
My personal list:
Everything with the world Sprint was uninstalled or disabled. Sprint ID and Sprint installer can't be disabled.
BlurbCheckout - Is used to purchase physical photo albums. So NO.
Flipboard - I use News360
Google Play Magazines - Never will buy one
hp Print Service - Never will print
Lumen Toolbar - I will never use the stock browser.
Story Album
Story Album Widget - Never buying it
Swype - Using the stock keyboard for now
Yahoo! Finance - Don't care
I'm not sure if I should disable Samsung Apps or anything else.
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Quick question all; so will disabling a App free up RAM (and/or improve speed & performance) or does it simply remove it from the home screen?
Thank you!
Some of those it doesn't even remove from the home screen. (Like Scout and other pre-installed things)
But mainly it's to prevent them from running background services and taking up space on the device from the updates. An update doesn't replace the original system file, so it essentially doubles the size an app takes, even more as it grows. Though Titanium Backup Pro has a feature to replace the stock app with the update.
Also curious things I disabled, like the Weather widget which doesn't even seem to have an app of its own. Just "Weather Widget"
On a slight tangent, I figured out where Com2usPoker and the Match 3 game are. Go under Group Play->Create Group->Play Games. There you will find those two games listed. The poker requires at least two people, but the Match 3 game has a single player mode.
M3wThr33 said:
Some of those it doesn't even remove from the home screen. (Like Scout and other pre-installed things)
But mainly it's to prevent them from running background services and taking up space on the device from the updates. An update doesn't replace the original system file, so it essentially doubles the size an app takes, even more as it grows. Though Titanium Backup Pro has a feature to replace the stock app with the update.
Also curious things I disabled, like the Weather widget which doesn't even seem to have an app of its own. Just "Weather Widget"
On a slight tangent, I figured out where Com2usPoker and the Match 3 game are. Go under Group Play->Create Group->Play Games. There you will find those two games listed. The poker requires at least two people, but the Match 3 game has a single player mode.
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Thanks, I was going through disabling apps and was wondering what the hell those were. Kudos, sir!
M3wThr33 said:
So I doubt everyone will use every feature of the device. I just want a feel for what things people have disabled/uninstalled.
My personal list:
Everything with the world Sprint was uninstalled or disabled. Sprint ID and Sprint installer can't be disabled.
BlurbCheckout - Is used to purchase physical photo albums. So NO.
Flipboard - I use News360
Google Play Magazines - Never will buy one
hp Print Service - Never will print
Lumen Toolbar - I will never use the stock browser.
Story Album
Story Album Widget - Never buying it
Swype - Using the stock keyboard for now
Yahoo! Finance - Don't care
I'm not sure if I should disable Samsung Apps or anything else.
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Here's what I've disabled so far...
M3wThr33 said:
So I doubt everyone will use every feature of the device. I just want a feel for what things people have disabled/uninstalled.
My personal list:
Everything with the world Sprint was uninstalled or disabled. Sprint ID and Sprint installer can't be disabled.
BlurbCheckout - Is used to purchase physical photo albums. So NO.
Flipboard - I use News360
Google Play Magazines - Never will buy one
hp Print Service - Never will print
Lumen Toolbar - I will never use the stock browser.
Story Album
Story Album Widget - Never buying it
Swype - Using the stock keyboard for now
Yahoo! Finance - Don't care
I'm not sure if I should disable Samsung Apps or anything else.
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I think Flipboard > News360, but that's just my op...
I'd agree with the rest... I don't even own and HP printer why would I need that crap is what I'm saying HP must have paid Sprint to put that crap on...
Also, given the pressure Samsung is getting about lack of storage on the device AND the notorious size of printer drivers, anybody want to bet that'll be uninstallable in a future update AND that it takes up a bunch of room?
So within the past week or so one of the apps on my phone has been causing Ads to appear on my phone regardless of where I am on my phone (home screen, various apps, etc). They just start appearing. I figured my phone was infected because I've never seen this before. I started to go on Google's playstore and search for every app on my phone and check reviews. I figured whatever app was the culprit would have tons of 1 star reviews very recently. I searched for "TouchPal Emoji" and there's all the 1 star review saying they are getting ads on their phone.
This app was added to my ZTE Axon Pro by default. I'm not sure if it can be entirely removed from the phone either. I don't see it in my app list anymore but I'm not sure if its entirely gone. Anyone else experience this?
I had this as well, and went through my apps... I suspected the Touchpal - disabled it, and saw the side icon disappear (it was asking to install a game as well as the ads) trying to remove it - it would not let me - but asked if I wanted to roll back to the original touchpal. Did that and left it disabled.
I'm having a problem with ads by google. I restored my note 8 from a note 4 and have all my apps that I've been using for years. Nothing new. Now with the new note 8 (unlocked version) I get a full page ad for the google app store about every 2 days, just some random app to download.
This shows up when I pick up my phone and unlock it.
So I've gone into the app store and made sure all notifications are off. I turned off all notifications from any app I don't need notifications from. I've gone into the google ad choices on my google account and turned off ad personalization. I've removed pretty much removed all the google apps except play store and play music.
I called Samsung and they had me remove my google account from the phone and reinstall it. I was told it will ask for permissions and it never did.
I'm ready throw this dam thing because I can't get the ads to stop.
Today I put it in safe mode to see if it happens over the next couple of days.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
What launcher are you using? The stock Samsung one? I never get ads in the home and lockscreen even back when I didn't habe an ad blocker installed.
You are getting a pop-up ad, then I don't think it has anything to do with notifications. I suggest you start uninstalling apps one by one until this problem stops. It is most likely an app on your phone doing this. Start uninstalling in the reverse order you installed them in. There will be a rogue app causing the problem.
I think I found the app. A network signal app that people complain about popup ads. Hopefully this is the issue.
thanks
NEW ? Spam/Malware com.dti.blu aka Mobile Services
although... while MalwareBytes doesn't considered unwanted notifications malware...
they call them PUPs Potential Unwanted Programs..
But I call them Malware.
It looks like.. on Nov 8th app-blu-release.apk was downloaded and installed
Not sure what it is/was.
Today.. I got a notification for something like this "Blu wants you to come enjoy games..."
long press the notification.
"Mobile Services" com.dti.blu Updated October 27th.
searching the internet.... I didn't find anything of importance..
I don't want to delete it immediately at this time.. not exactly knowing what it is or does..
other than the Spam/Malware intrusion.
I did force stop it.
So.. if anybody has any info on the apk.. please chime in.
It might be very similar to the situation in the thread below which can be resolved once I know what the APK is...
The thread below.. titled "Android Tools" stock app ? I keep getting push notifications..."
https://forum.xda-developers.com/vivo-xl/help/android-tools-stock-app-getting-push-t3752075
thanks group..
Got an unauthorized download of Gamehub or similar last week and deleted it. Got the same notification about being invited to play games today. Uninstalled Mobile Services updates and then disabled it. No problems so far. This appears to be more crap from Blu masquerading as Google mobile services. It's not a Google app.
I finally fought off the auto downloads and constant notifications resulting from last November's Marshmallow upgrade around March or so. Now it's starting up again. Is November Blu's f with our customers month?
This " com.dti.blu " is definitely a malware it keep installing random games such as Candy Crush Saga, FarmVille 2: Country Escape , Move the Block : Slide Puzzle ... etc
i try uninstalling it with
Code:
adb shell pm uninstall --user 0 com.dti.blu
everything works well but upon looking on apps list it is just disable but it's file size keep getting bigger in real time like it downloading itself again
This is the last time im buying BLU phone
I have a BLU V5 (box says V5, reports G5 in the phone). I'm not getting any unwanted ads or downloads, but It has been slow since the day I got it, and lots of RAM used up even when I'm not doing anything and Android doesn't report what's using it.
Last night, I decided to adb it and found com.bluproducts.activationapp and com.digitalturbine.blubar. I couldn't find anything online on com.bluproducts.activation app, but com.digitalturbine.blubar was definitely an ad service, so I uninstalled from adb. Instant speed improvement.
This morning, I noticed it was slow again, when I used adb, I found a new package that wasn't there before, com.dti.blu. So I uninstalled that, and as soon as I did, com.digitalturbine.blubar re-appeared. I uninstalled that and now I decided to also uninstall com.bluproducts.activationapp. I don't know what's causing these to reinstall. I'll see if it's back tomorrow. Anyone know for sure how to keep these packages from re-installing?