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EzraS
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10 Aug 2016, 2:32 am

Every time lately when I log onto WP with my Android using Chrome, I get a pop up saying my device is infected with a virus, I need to click "ok" to fix it, if I try to close the pop up my device will be locked. One of them even imitated a warning from Google. The thing is of course the web adress was someting like "typrg.pw".



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10 Aug 2016, 5:15 am

Since its only you posting here, it sounds like you could have spyware. Clean your phone with antivirus.


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10 Aug 2016, 8:16 am

Not having a andriod device I don't know much about that, but You shouldn't click random dialogues if they randomly show up, It's a bad idea.


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14 Aug 2016, 11:11 am

Pieplup wrote:
Not having a andriod device I don't know much about that, but You shouldn't click random dialogues if they randomly show up, It's a bad idea.


I'm just clicking the same stuff I've been clicking for years.



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14 Aug 2016, 12:53 pm

No, never click 'ok' on those, if you can't close out of it just shut down or restart your phone.

Obviously a little too late for that warning so you might actually need to get an anti-virus program to get rid of whatever it infected your device with. But for future reference don't click ok...it doesn't fix it it's what screws up your device. You should only ever click ok if it's anti-virus software you yourself downloaded, not a weird screen that you can't x out of.


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