Quote from: Amphenomenon on Today at 05:05:11 AM

I'm curious if anyone here has ever faces adware (ad-based malware) problems or knows someone that did.

Something happened to a colleague, like a week or two ago. Her device was basically affected by adware after downloading a app from Google play store through ads on Facebook.

I must say something that adware is something anyone shouldn't plan on experiencing while it may not be dangerous like other malware like trojan, it's still very annoying. Just imagine having ads popping up every 5 seconds or more and being redirected to Google play just because your Internet connection is on?

Such apps cannot be found directly on your device, you have to dig to your general app list at setting and start searching for it. It's still difficult to find because it may have an invisible icon, takes some weird name or used any other means to hide itself.

All these are common among those phone cleanser and pdf, like we have often heard and that were the same app used to inflict her phone device. Here is one of the app didn't collect a screenshot of the other when I was helping her to fixed it. Although the app name was Tidy up cleaner that was what I got, but it has a green background and a brush as an app icon.

https://ibb.co/fzdcLfmg

Although, bought app might be removed from playstore already but they gave her a hard time, that she was advised to format her phone in order to clear everything but she was scared of not being able to recover somethings on her device and backing up her device with the adware around was even more difficult and annoying.
We could have something important that may make us not to reset your device when issues arises and I think this is one good reason why it's important to have a seed phrase backed up even if it's not your main wallet or you just had ot for only a single purpose but as long as you have your bitcoin/altcoin then it's better to backed up once created.
The comments or reviews on app like this speak the truth,
try to get people comments on a app or file before downloading/installingon your device. I remember going through the replies, people speaking of annoyingads and pop up they recieved through it, those understanding technical terms tagged it as an malicious app.
We have been informed quite a lot of times here not to blindly trust apps from social media, app store and play stire. Watch your guard ignorancecan hunt really hard. Go thing I was able to help her.
Here are some helpful videoslinks from YouTubetoremove it:
https://youtu.be/GkQBEcN-BjM?si=4D1q11PVycY_PntC
https://youtu.be/YuSQtGQyK9k?si=jem9tqUoUi8Qq1vY

Before my issues are applications or pop-ups that is so annoying that sometimes accidentally installed to my laptop or mobile phones, to keep safe from this i installed an open source firewall to block pop-ups and applications to make sure im safe from this, and have never have to worry about those annoying things again.
Aside from that always check the reviews if those reviews are so negative and with lots of complains, i wont even try to install those apps again.