Pop Up Ads

[Nigelar]

Our colleague Mr Catmunky reported an issue recently connected with pop up ads. In his case he believed it was due to a recent android movie app he had downloaded giving es file explorer permissions.

As of today i am seeing pop up ads in both android and kodi. As far as i can see, the only change over the last few days is a new version of es file explorer.
(Coincidentally this also introduced an annoying "new file" on-screen icon which i removed in es tools).

Has anybone else seen this recent behaviour?
I will research and experiment but my finger is pointing at es file explorer right now (i may be wrong)

 

[Nigelar]

Other areas i will look at are google play store and clearing chrome history. I'll report back progress.

 

[sblabs]

I had this the other day a on-screen icon on the right hand side, with like a blue circle round it? i just did a full reset and its ok now. but it was a pain i was thinking es file explorer too but i did a full reset and its ok now.

 

[Nigelar]

The es file explorer thing you can stop in es file explorer - settings - general settings - "logger floating widget settings" and unset. So dont need a full reset for that.

Update #1.

Clearing chrome browser history did not help.

 

[sblabs]

good tip on the settings, so its the same thing you got? on the right hand side with a blue circle?

 

[Nigelar]

Yes thats it.

Update #3
I went into the google settings app and disabled "ads of interest". No effect.

Now downloaded malwarebytes and running.

 

[Nigelar]

Update #4

Ran malwarebytes.
Pointed to showbox as malware.
I uninstalled it.
We will wait and see if it is the true cause.
It must have been a "sleeper" if so, because i reinstalled everything earlier this week after the firmware update.

 

[sblabs]

i dont think its showbox, as i dont have that on my box, this is why i did a full reset, no messing about was back up and running in 30min

 

[Nigelar]

No, show box maybe the cause of the pop up adverts.
The dot on the screen is due to Es file explorer.

 

[Nigelar]

(Final?) Update #6

The pop up ads appear to have gone for now.
So main suspect is showbox.

Recommendation: download and run malwarebytes from Google play.

 

[sblabs]

No, show box maybe the cause of the pop up adverts.
The dot on the screen is due to Es file explorer.

yup that's what it was, thanks for the tip.

 

[palpatine]

why has kodi addons managed to stay add free?
Will it change in the future??

 

[Nigelar]

See reply to your duplicate post on another thread.

 

[palpatine]

ok thanks