Android scareware: Fake virus messages confuse users

Android scareware: Fake virus messages confuse users

Many Android users are confused about dubious virus messages on websites such as Fbmacadmax.com. They disguise themselves as MP3 Downloader or play store and annoying with ads. We show you the most common examples and get advice from the AV-TEST experts.

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The AndroidPIT Forum has spoken. For months, users can collect reports on advertising. These are visible while surfing on 9gag or other frequently visited sites and provide for uncertainty: "Your mobile phone can be infected by viruses" or "your mobile device is for the time being [...] locked." Sometimes vibrates the Smartphone while providing a small scare.

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Safe: imagine, standing on the buttons "Do not push". / © ANDROIDPIT
Following a call to action is often: "Pay money", 'Download the security app', "Remove the virus now" - often with grammatical errors. Some apps awaken the semblance of legitimacy, they call your Smartphone model and correctly highlight the Android version. To be legitimate-looking URLs or well-known logos.

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Do not press the buttons at Fbmcadmax or Fbmxadmax. Pushes back. / © ANDROIDPIT
Of course, these messages are all nonsense and non-hazardous. Sites can bring your Smartphone thanks to JavaScript for some years to shake. Here are demos. And your browser submits all sites important key data on your Smartphone. You can see what they are, in this table. This is deliberate, so that sites the device display you can adapt, see responsive Web design. Also AV-TEST CEO Andreas Marx is the view, "the Windows or messages easy to close and is
Don't be alarmed, the only way is."

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Scareware insecure users with accessible information about it. / © ANDROIDPIT
What should you do if so a message pops? Never OK or apply her touch, because then allows the site, execute a script. According to Android, browser - and system-WebView version, this script can take advantage of an open security vulnerability and manipulate your browser. Press navigation back to the bottom of the display or the capacitive button on your Smartphone instead. Some malware sites are persistent and keep the page. In this case, press the home button, enters the settings, finds in the apps your browser and deletes its app data.

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Yikes! Don't spook let. / © ANDROIDPIT
If this tip for you comes too late, it may be that the script has already been run. To eliminate the so successful infection, you can pursue several ways. The first results, as above, using the app info browser. Goes one step further and turned off the browser. This removes its updates and really you can reset all settings to the original state. Then, you can reactivate it and should have no problems.

Occasionally these attacks not a website, but an app. This has jointed banners, about which such views are possible. In the aforementioned thread on the AndroidPIT Forum, a MP3 Downloader app was the cause. For a diagnosis, you should rely on our guide to removing malware apps. A so-called anti virus app is neither necessary nor effective for disinfection. AV-test security researcher Marcel Wabersky says: "Many antivirus apps see also adware, but unfortunately not all and unfortunately not everything."

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If this doesn't help, you must completely reset your smartphone may or repair even its firmware in conjunction with a PC with special software. This leads to a complete loss of data. So if you download first copy your photos from your Smartphone.

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Marcel Wabersky completed, it cannot be the causes of these scareware attacks difficult out of the way. He explains: "one way to get rid of the whole thing, is to disable JavaScript in chrome. That makes it almost useless many pages but."

Often, malware or adware comes also from apps that have been downloaded off of the play store. Here, Wabersky explains, you should "refer" apps only from trusted sources. Unfortunately, he must concede that "the play store is anything but adware-free."

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