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Help Phone floated with some weird apps

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outbreak47

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Hello

My phone keeps trying to force me to install some weird apps that I never downloaded and the problem I don't know where the heck are the installs of those apps to remove them so I have to keep canceling every time they show up and it's realy annoying :mad:

I know the names if some of those apps (zero , apus) there's even some chinese apps...

Please help
 
Zero and Apus are both launchers. Do you have them installed? It could be that they are pushing notification based adds at you that look like apps that want to install. You might want to try addons detector to see if you can find where these notifications are coming from.
 
I think I installed zero once just to get rid of it's annoying popups but then deleted it coz there's no zero apps in the menu but it keeps coming up telling me that I have downloaded it and should install -_-
 
Addons detector will show you if there are any apps that you have installed pushing these notifications. It's not 100% but it catches most things. Sometimes this adware (malware, if you ask me) is so invasive that the best thing to do is to backup your personal data and perform a factory reset.

One other thing you might look at is Samsung's app store. Those notifications can be a little obnoxious, too and I believe it's installed by default on all Notes.
 
Ok I did a scan now and removed the filter from the addons tab but there's no evidence of those apps that are popping up, there's just two apps I don't recognize (com.system.patch , samsung billing) which I don't know if they're related to this issue or not..
 
I will assume Samsung billing is for the Samsung app store ... in order to be able to charge you for in app purchases. The other one I have no idea.

Another thing to look at is your browser ... if you have gone to a shady website that stored a cookie, you could have something trying to get in that way. You can go to the app mamnager and find your browser and then clear the cache and data for it (it will wipe all your settings and bookmarks, so if you want to save anything, backup first) and then see if that clears the notifications. If not, I'd consider the reset.
 
I have some websites stored as tabs in my chrome app do you think they're related to the issue?
& Sorry for taking time to reply
 
Quite possibly, but it wouldn't be the bookmarks, but the cookies they installed upon viewing the page.
 
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