Strange ad in notification bar

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jesi.james

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• Dec 24, 2011

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Okay out of nowhere I have this fake ipad ad on my notification bar and I've never seen it before. Any idea about it? (I haven't clicked it yet because idk if it would ever come back)

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jesi.james

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• Dec 24, 2011

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The site it lead me to. Seems sketchy but idkk. And ideas?

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Dani897

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I think you got ad ware on yer phone. does that icon resemble any apps you have? maybe you picked up a virus siding those porn sites??

 

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jesi.james

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Dani897 said:

I think you got ad ware on yer phone. does that icon resemble any apps you have? maybe you picked up a virus siding those porn sites??

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Doesn't resemble any that I know of and and doubt the virus thing as I know what I'm browsing


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rickxx2000

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• Dec 24, 2011

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i started getting these notifications on my status bar as well. annoying!

 

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jesi.james

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rickxx2000 said:

i started getting these notifications on my status bar as well. annoying!

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What are you running?


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Dani897

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are you guys running miui? those chinese like to put virus' in there stuff. maybe it's something the porters/modders missed

 

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jesi.james

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Dani897 said:

are you guys running miui? those chinese like to put virus' in there stuff. maybe it's something the porters/modders missed

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I am but I've been running it for weeks and never encountered this before



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CheesyNutz

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• Dec 24, 2011

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Dani897 said:

are you guys running miui? those chinese like to put virus' in there stuff. maybe it's something the porters/modders missed

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roflmao what are you talking about been running miui in 1 shape or form since my evo 4g days and NEVER have had this happen

 

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CheesyNutz said:

roflmao what are you talking about been running miui in 1 shape or form since my evo 4g days and NEVER have had this happen

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I'm talking about the fact that the orriginal miui ports before all the translations were finished were known to have some kind of call home service. the rom was comunicating with servers in China.

we all know about carrier IQ but China has been doing much worse. even iPods made in China were found to have malware at one time.

 

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bigfau

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• Dec 24, 2011

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I had this happen to me bacause of a GO Launcher Ex theme. I think it was Galaxy SII theme or something like that.

Edit:Go Launcher Ex GalaxyS theme.

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jesi.james

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bigfau said:

I had this happen to me bacause of a GO Launcher Ex theme. I think it was Galaxy SII theme or something like that.

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Definitely will look into this. Thanks



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florelui001p

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• Dec 24, 2011

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You have some app installed that pushes ads to your notification bar. Any new apps you recently have installed?

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rickxx2000

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• Dec 24, 2011

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jesi.james said:

What are you running?


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i'm on cm7.

 

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jesi.james

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florelui001p said:

You have some app installed that pushes ads to your notification bar. Any new apps you recently have installed?

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No but I guess it's from an update maybe



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carloz800

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It was bloat freezer

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socalledsin

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I get one from the mp3 downloader app despite having "no ads" in the title lol

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arsinic

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• Jan 3, 2012

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I had the same thing. It was from one of the app I installed. I used "airpush detector" to detect which app had that problem and I uninstalled it asap.

hit the thanks button if this helped!

 

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willillam

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• Jan 4, 2012

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don`t get it

T get them too i don't why.

 

Catchpen

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arsinic said:

I had the same thing. It was from one of the app I installed. I used "airpush detector" to detect which app had that problem and I uninstalled it asap.

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This.
I found out it was the mp3 search app that was spamming me by running Airpush Detector. 'Airpush' allows the app to send you ads even when the app isn't running. If you have the Android market Mp3 app uninstall it and go to the Amazon market and they have an Mp3 search app without the Airpush spam.

 

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