App ad network malware

My home router’s security feature blocked some things when I was web browsing in increasing frequency. It got really bad. The AP and NBC News both experienced redirects to a page spoofing my ISP asking personal questions to give me a smartphone in the same hour. Obviously fake. Obviously a scam. Maybe phishing. These were uncaught by the security software. But, I could not get to anything on my phone that involved web-browsing.

“apolitik_Magritte” by ApolitikNow is licensed under I decided the behavior started some days prior with an app I installed to help me remember medications. I uninstalled it. The phone returned to normal usage. So, hope I fixed it.

Naturally, I left a 1 star review. But others have rated it highly, so it still has a 4.5 rating. The developer replied I should buy premium. Yeah, no way would I give money to malicious adware. Anything putting scams onto my device is not someone I can support.


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