Help CloudScout adware injecting ads on Chrome

[Android Question]

I have recently been seeing advertisements injected when browsing pages on Chrome on my LG phone. Underneath the ads there is a text that says 'ads by cloudscout, I am also seeing words underlined on Webpages that redirect to more advertisements.

I have now idea what is causing these ads, I've looked online, but can only find information about removing cloudscout from Windows. I've done virus scans with avast and AVG and found nothing. I don't think I have any malicious apps installed, I have the latest version of chrome. It seems that when I clean site data and cache from chrome the ads disappear, but after a few days they return. I can't see how a malicious cookie could actually cause the ads though.

These are some screenshots of the ads:

http://i.imgur.com/5e82yin.png

http://i.imgur.com/GASLjlB.png

Anyone have any idea about what might be causing this?

 

[elieandroid]

I have recently been seeing advertisements injected when browsing pages on Chrome on my LG phone. Underneath the ads there is a text that says 'ads by cloudscout, I am also seeing words underlined on Webpages that redirect to more advertisements.

I have now idea what is causing these ads, I've looked online, but can only find information about removing cloudscout from Windows. I've done virus scans with avast and AVG and found nothing. I don't think I have any malicious apps installed, I have the latest version of chrome. It seems that when I clean site data and cache from chrome the ads disappear, but after a few days they return. I can't see how a malicious cookie could actually cause the ads though.

These are some screenshots of the ads:

http://i.imgur.com/5e82yin.png

http://i.imgur.com/GASLjlB.png

Anyone have any idea about what might be causing this?

I got this today too. This worked for me, not sure if it will work for you too. Apparently, I caught this adware not on my google phone but on one of my other devices(probably laptop) and chrome sync kept syncing the cookie malware. I don't see the errors on my laptop as i have adblock but see the ads on my android phone. So i cleared all cookies, disabled sync on my phone and bam it's gone. This is probably why this thread: http://androidforums.com/threads/ca...y-cloudscout-even-after-factory-reset.911070/ also kept having the adware even after factory reset so long as chrome sync is still on. GG

 

[casas55]

Thanks for your post, sorry I didn't reply, but I just saw it. I don't have chrome sync enabled on my phone, but I am still getting the ads appearing on pages. I tried clearing cookies and site data when this happened again and it didn't fix the problem this time.

I'm just not sure what is going on and where this is coming from. Anyone have any more ideas?

 

[El Presidente]

If you take a look at the attached thread, it recommends installing an app called Add Ons detector, so it might be worth giving that a go?

Also, when you cleared the data, did you do it via Settings -> Apps -> Chrome -> Clear Cache/Data, or from within Chrome itself?

Also, try deleting everything in sd card\Android\data\com.android.chrome.

You'll lose bookmarks etc, but it's a small price to pay in an attempt to get rid of the hijack.

 

[casas55]

If you take a look at the attached thread, it recommends installing an app called Add Ons detector, so it might be worth giving that a go?

Also, when you cleared the data, did you do it via Settings -> Apps -> Chrome -> Clear Cache/Data, or from within Chrome itself?

Also, try deleting everything in sd card\Android\data\com.android.chrome.

You'll lose bookmarks etc, but it's a small price to pay in an attempt to get rid of the hijack.

I did give Add Ons detector a go, but didn't come up with anything. I was just a bit reticent to delete app data, because I had a few tabs open that I've just left to save, but in the end I did clear all chrome data, so we'll see if it fixes the problem!

Thanks for the suggestions, what I still can't work out is how something like cloudscout could interact with chrome to do cause this, it's an interesting one, because it couldn't really be a cookie and you'd think chrome wouldn't allow things like that to happen.