How can I get rid of yaaad popups (annoying) (urgent help required)?

[droid_android]

yaaad popups (annoying) (urgent help required)

I am sick and tired of the yaaad popup virus/malware. At one time it was on 2 of my laptops and currently is on 3 of my android phones!

It happens whenever I click any link on any page inside any browser (chrome, default browser or dolphin browser) and a popup window is there starting always with image14.yaaad.com/LINKOFWEBPAGE.US and then it goes to google for a second and then goes to LINKOFWEBPAGE.US etc and then there are lot of ADs there. other variants are http:// images17.yaaad.com/. Everytime a new website opens and same style and new ADs come.

At the bottom of every popup page is '2015 GoDaddy.com, LLC. All Rights reserved' written.

It actually started in one go around 3 months back and go on 2 of my laptops and 2 cell phones both running Android. I freaked out when it came on my personal laptop and I used around 10 different Malwares removal and somehow I was able to remove it from my personal laptop ( The bad part is I dont know which software removed it )

The other work laptop still has the issue and it does not travel through USB etc.

My other android phones have this issue as well (Galaxy Nexus). Whether I use 3G of WiFi the popup comes and after they have opened up 3,4 times they stop for a while and then after a few hours etc, they come back again as if it's an endless loop. When I touch a link, the popup always opens in a new tab.

I recently bought a new tablet (WiFi only) and new phone as well. Both are using the same gmail ID and I am using WiFi on the tablet and no popup issue is there but when I inserted my sim (the old phone sim) the popup virus began on the new phone on the first webpage I opened (it wasnt there before I put in the new sim). The sim card cannot have this issue as I recently got micro sim issued....

HELP ME OUT.... There are 100s of softwares for cleaning PC, but I cannot access phone internal system and clean it as when you connect phone to laptop, you can only access the internal memory and the SD card and that's it....

I tried on my new phone (LG G3) something different which was to use a brand new gmail ID and I installed one app at a time to see if some APP is generating it. I installed whatsapp and then checked brower for half a day nothing happened, then I installed facebook and no issue, messenger followed and no issue took place and then VLC media player. Just yesterday morning I transferred my old phone contacts through a .vcf to my new phone and after 24 hours the popups are back.

Kindly help me as I feel that after these popups appear, they are draining the battery much faster and the popups are just annoying. Maybe my phone is at risk as well.

I have attached screen shots as well.

 

[B. Diddy]

Re: yaaad popups (annoying) (urgent help required)

That sounds frustrating. At this point, I would do a factory reset. But first, go to Settings>Backup & Reset, and turn off the Automatically Restore option, since you don't want any prior data to be restored, in case the malicious code is there somewhere. After the reset, and after finishing the Setup Wizard, go immediately to the Play Store and stop any app that might be installing automatically.

Now be very careful about which apps you install. Be especially cautious with games, gambling apps, "RAM cleaners," or battery saver apps--these are the types of apps that tend to have a higher risk of being shady or malicious. Check a lot of reviews beforehand of each app you install--look for complaints about adware or other suspicious behavior.

Don't copy your contacts over as a .vcf file. If possible, make sure all of your contacts are associated with your Google account, and they shoulld simply sync to your phone's Contacts app.