Watchdog App...Could someone help me?

[elektradriod]

Hello all, I hope I'm in the right place....

I recently started to get this dodgy advertising notification, its a blue star in my tool bar, and I can't get rid of it unless I click it and it opens to an advertising link, usually for gameloft or dating ads, its only happened in the last week or so.

So I googled it "obviously!"...and one other person I found had it, and someone advised them to download watchdog and run some sort of scan and it will tell you which app is doing it.

Now, this person resolved the issue and it turned out to be a game they had downloaded.

I have uninstalled all the things I downloaded recently, and I installed this watchdog thing, and the ad just came up again but watchdog didnt do anything, can someone advise me what else I could do to try and find the app thats causing this??(apart from factory reset) I can't find a ways of scanning the apps for anything dodgy..

Vodafone advised me to take it to nearest store, but I feel I could probably sort it out myself with the right guidance!

Thankyou

Elektradroid

 

[A.Nonymous]

Watchdog should show you a list of all the apps that are running. Go down that list and kill anything that looks suspicious. When the icon goes away, you know which app is causing the problem.