Phone sending text by itself

[Joker45157]

For the last 2 days my phone has randomly been texting random numbers even when im using the phone at the time, literally without my knowledge adn as shown in the photo is just a bunch of gibberish that i havent any idea of what it means an its only been doing this since i played around with samsung link to windows feature

 

[Kilrah]

Malware either on phone or PC?

[Joker45157]

1 minute ago, Kilrah said:

Malware either on phone or PC?

I have scanned both my pc and my phone with antivirus an nothing has come up

[BobVonBob]

Is your phone sending the messages, or are you just receiving them? If it's sending them, then something is wrong, try some more antivirus software. If it's receiving them, then you're just being spammed and the best you can do is block the numbers and be more careful where you give out your phone number in the future.

[Hellotherelmao]

take your SIM out of your phone to halt the texts. also contact your SIM provider to check for any unusual changes that may have been made to your SIM settings/contracts. i dont know exactly how to help you so all i can say is UNLINK YOUR PHONE AND PC!! and then follow the questions below.

 

have you got a messaging app on your pc? if yes, uninstall it. 

do you have adobe flash on your pc? i know it sounds stupid but uninstall it

finally, do you have an external appstore on your pc/phone. if yes then look it up on your web browser and see if its reliable. if its not, delete it.

 

if nothing has changed, then i cant help you

[Hellotherelmao]

oh and check which apps have permissions to sms/ texts. if any of them seem like they cant be trusted, or you dont know what they are, remove their permissions and then uninstall them