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Kookoo

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#281124 31-Jan-2021 20:16
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Help! I'm getting spam and scam pop-ups on Chrome on my Note 10.

 

 

Happens whenever I open Chrome; or if the phone is locked and I unlock it - Chrome is up showing me a new scam page. Chrome isn't even my default browser. Got all the classics there including "security update", "install antivirus" and the likes.

 

 

What I've done so far:

 

- force stopped Chrome, "uninstalled", cleared cache, reinstalled with account sync disabled

 

- installed and ran Malwarebytes - no issues found

 

- installed and ran Bitdefender - no issues found

 

 

Any ideas what else I can do here?




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freitasm: It is likely other apps, not Chrome itself. Tried pressing the tasks button to see what other app was running just before? Any apps recently updated?

 

 

Thanks Mauricio. This helped massively - took me a couple of minutes to find out the culprit. It was "Barcode scanner" that I've been using for years - it's now been hijacked and used for malware. How the heck this passed Google's release controls is beyond me, but here we are. Thanks again.




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