AirPush: showing ads in my notification bar on my android phone

[Dannai7]

I have an android phone. I have a problem with this phone. Just (like a week ago or so) I began showing ads in my notification bar. it has an symbol which is a white star with a red dot in the center. The last one I found said "College degrees presented" and when I pressed it. It purchased me to game site (first time considering this site). Any opinions? It is not that much of a bother, but I am just scared of spyware and such. I did not load any new applications (at least I do not feel), but did update my applications.

[Mumtaz86]

I have begun understanding these as well. For a pair weeks at this moment. One was telling me my phone was too leisurely, a pair telling me my battery was low (phone was completely charged!) and the most recent was to meet singles in my region. I have gone to the last two and checked the applications as spam in the market. None of these are things I have found loaded on my phone. The only applications I can believe of that might be associated to this are TapFish and Words with Friends. I am removing applications I do not utilize and going to attempt and maintain an eye on the notifications to observe if I can figure out what is causing it for certain. If I get anything I will update. Also one-starring the applications that show up would not work since it seems like the only approach to do that is by really installing the application.

[Andrea000]

There is no approach on earth I would always agree to this from an application - it would be a direct uninstall. I have no issue with developers utilizing in-application ads (even though I cannot stand them, and will favor to give money for an application without ads than have a at no cost application with ads), but bombarding me with ads exterior the application itself is away from the light. So from my point of view you should take the help from online. By doing this you will get more knowledge on this topic.

[Madhulika]

In fact I did. I loaded three applications. They were all email clients. Only one had ads on the base. Mail droid. I get in touch with them about it but they now avoided they had something to do with it. Since these all move toward from the Google market, I love to make Google liable for it. In the meantime, each ad that displays up on my phone, I will go to that locate and post a worst evaluation about it therefore the world recognizes where a few of this crap is coming from. I expect others do the equivalent!

[Joshe]

I had this issue as well, shortly after I ran an accumulation of updates. No one of the forums was extremely supportive, so I had to form it out myself so here it goes: Next time the star seems, press the ad and observe which application name seems in the upper left-hand corner (as it takes you to the Market to vision the application it is promoting).For me, the application was simple sieve. I removed it and read the other reviews, and the other users were similarly irritated. I feel the ad service is AirPush or something some of the without cost applications are utilizing it now to produce revenue, I am certain. I expect you get this helpful. I am too much happy to be done with those stitch ads!

[Sawan123]

I would like to recommend you that watch out for this - I had a like ad display up in my notification bar some weeks ago and when I pressed it to create it go away, in fact it showed to have located a Trojan of some type on my phone that began removing all of my applications. The merely way I could make it prevent was to do a factory setting reset. I was freaking out because I was essentially inspecting things disappear and all I could feel about was how I utilize my phone as an alarm clock. Be careful what you press!

[Karleen]

I would like to tell you about that Linux News by open observation mobile utilize AirPush ads. As suggested here downloaded AirPush Detector by Dan Bjorge to classify the application then uninstalled marking it mean, rating it one, and leaving a evaluation warning others of airpush notifications. I did not utilize Airpush Application for constant Opt-out because I did not belief utilizing the application since it was published by Airpush. Has anyone skilled issues utilizing this technique? Now again thanks to all of you.