Keep on getting brought to a website

[spwexler]

I have cleared my cookies, but when I go to phonearena.com I am getting brought to this page. How can I block?

 

[YAYTech]

You have a redirect virus. It's likely associated with an app that's installed, or something in the browser's cache. Wipe the cache (not just cookies) and look through your apps for anything that isn't 100% reputable. In some rare cases, viruses can get embedded into Android, in which case you'll need to factory reset. That's not too likely though.

(I've had one Android tablet that a customer brought me that was rendered worthless because the virus even infected the firmware, so factory resets were pre-infected, and this particular tablet had pretty much no modding community to provide a clean image.)

 

[spwexler]

Thanks. I'll try

 

[spwexler]

I think disabling javascript helped. Chrome beta also seems faster.

 

[spwexler]

Now today all my Bluetooth connected devices are missing.

 

[dpham00]

Now today all my Bluetooth connected devices are missing.

At this point, I would recommend backing up all data and doing a factory data reset.

 

[dpham00]

You have a redirect virus. It's likely associated with an app that's installed, or something in the browser's cache. Wipe the cache (not just cookies) and look through your apps for anything that isn't 100% reputable. In some rare cases, viruses can get embedded into Android, in which case you'll need to factory reset. That's not too likely though.

(I've had one Android tablet that a customer brought me that was rendered worthless because the virus even infected the firmware, so factory resets were pre-infected, and this particular tablet had pretty much no modding community to provide a clean image.)

Did that device have a locked bootloader?

 

[YAYTech]

Did that device have a locked bootloader?

Yup, it's an old Verizon tablet. You could factory reset it, and it would have a few porn & ad apps installed already, and download a bunch more the moment it got an internet connection. I did some searching around and found almost zero information about factory images, rooting, etc. It seemed to be all sorts of locked down, and old enough that no one seemed very interested in figuring out how to do things with it. It's still sitting in my back room electronics recycling pile. Haven't pulled the trigger yet on actually sending it with the recyclers when they come.

 

[spwexler]

Haven't been on in a while. Just got my replacement phone from Motorola.

 

[NX1977]

Had this from one of the click bait ad networks you see on pages (OMG look what he found in his basement etc).

Lots of these redirect adverts seem to direct to Amazon AWS hosting
http://androidforums.com/threads/assistance-with-s3-amazonaws-pop-up.1062253/