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Am I Still Infected with a Virus?

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So, yesterday, I was browsing on Chrome on my HTC One X, and I accidentally clicked on an advert. However, as I went right off it, a message came up saying that the page I just clicked off had a virus on it, and it said click OK to repair it. So, as any person that has a little common sense, I pressed OK. But I still wasn't convinced that the virus was gone so I downloaded the two most reliable smartphone antiviruses [iMO] which go by the name of Bitdefender and Malwarebytes Anti Malware. I scanned the phone with both and they say that my phone is clean. I don't see any changes in the loading times of apps or anything like that, but I don't know whether I am protected or not and do I still have that virus? Please Help.

 

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No.It was just an advertisiment.

What did the OK button do?

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are you fucking stupid? i'm sorry but even my grandmother knows not to trust ads telling her she has a virus

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No.It was just an advertisiment.

What did the OK button do?

 

Most likely nothing because the installer for whatever crap it was probably was a windows executable and didn't run on his phone.

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Most likely nothing because the installer for whatever crap it was probably was a windows executable and didn't run on his phone.

If it says "Your smartphone bla bla bla" it should be an apk,right?

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a message came up saying that the page I just clicked off had a virus on it

 

If it says "Your smartphone bla bla bla" it should be an apk,right?

 

One size fits all marketing BS.

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I flipped my avatar

 

One day I'm going to log in and it'll be upside down lol

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One day I'm going to log in and it'll be upside down lol

I was testing you this time

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are you fucking stupid? i'm sorry but even my grandmother knows not to trust ads telling her she has a virus

I should've made this a little more clear - It didn't say anything about a virus on the ad, it was a browser popup from chrome that said that

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I should've made this a little more clear - It didn't say anything about a virus on the ad, it was a browser popup from chrome that said that

have you never seen javascript before?

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facepalm*

No.It was just an advertisiment.

What did the OK button do?

oh, it didn't really do anything no downloads or anything like that

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have you never seen javascript before?

Ok, I should've known - what shall I do?

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Ok, I should've known - what shall I do?

if malwarebytes says you're fine, you're probably fine.

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if malwarebytes says you're fine, you're probably fine.

Thank God. Cheers for the advice.

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There was no virus it was an advertisement.

 

 

 

Unfortunately not.

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The stupidity is strong in this one.

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are you fucking stupid? i'm sorry but even my grandmother knows not to trust ads telling her she has a virus

if people like this that clicked on every okay button that pops up didnt exist, i wouldnt have a job.

So thank you OP, for feeding me.

 

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It didn't say anything about a virus on the ad, it was a browser popup from chrome that said that

 

Possibly a false positive.  Most anti-malware software is on a 'hair trigger' so it can be activated by a piece of a program that 'looks' like what a virus might look like as far as the software is concerned, so it goes into full blown you have a virus mode when you don't.

If scanning with Malwarebytes comes up clean then you (probably) don't have a virus. However no AV is 100% accurate if you are still wary try two or three other scanners (not really a 'phone guy' so not sure what is availlable free:AVG, AVAST?), between all of them you should get 99.999% coverage.

Not a good idea to click pop-up buttons unless you are sure  ("if in doubt click nowt") of where they came from and trust the source.

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