Ads showing up in Notification bar

eldiente · Jan 30, 2012

Every day in the middle of the day, I get an ad showing up in my notification bar for a free ipad, or amazon gc, or some other thing. I know it is from an app I have downloaded. I deleted the live wallpaper I downloaded and I don't really have any other apps than I did with my OG droid and never received them on that phone. I have sideloaded three apps, Google Wallet, Swype, & Volume +. I did sideload GetJar apk (then beautiful widgets) but then deleted them.

My question is how do I know what app is causing the ads and can an app that I have deleted that is known to cause ads still be making the ads show up. Is there a setting somewhere I can change to make them not show up. thanks

rexdog1888 · Jan 30, 2012

Download addons detector from the market and filter by apps using air push and whatever shows up is the app at fault.

jimmypop13 · Jan 30, 2012

I get ads any time I download the top mp3 download app. Do you have that?

eldiente · Jan 31, 2012

jimmypop13 said:
I get ads any time I download the top mp3 download app. Do you have that?

I don't have that app, but i do have music junk which was in the market but i can't find anymore.
I will try the addon detector and see what i can find. Thanks

IOWA · Jan 31, 2012

@jimmy

Perhaps you should stop trying to pirate music. Most of the time malware/spyware/adware is put onto someone's system because they are trying to pirate media. It's just not worth it.

Old Member · Jan 31, 2012

I never see ads for anything. Doesn't AdFree Android take care of that?

Crashumbc · Jan 31, 2012

Cincybearcatfan said:
I never see ads for anything. Doesn't AdFree Android take care of that?

I'm not sure it would, this (malware) app. Actually pushes the "ad" as a notification the same way you'd get a new e-mail or new sms sotification...

VoidedSaint · Jan 31, 2012

its called AirPush

you need to download airpush detector and it will remove it

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.brosmike.airpushdetector&hl=en

dhworph · Jan 31, 2012

I'd had this happen. Sometimes if you download free apps from the market they will put search shortcuts on your homescreen, and I had some ads popping up in my notification area once. I installed whatever app I thought it was (something recently downloaded, or recently run --- look in you active processes and kill things until the ads go away). It is usually a free game or some free novelty utility app or something.

Usually I've seen it disclosed on the app info page in the market whether or not it installs a search shortcut, but I have never seen anything disclosed about ads in the notification bar. I'm positive that mine were caused by a free app I installed (or that was installed by spyware.

I had a game called skywarrior installed (dont remember installing it) and it had a market page, but the current market page was not the same app - different developer. I uninstalled it, and I think that was the cause of my ads. Still don't know how it got there... makes me want to doa factory reset to start fresh and not install so many free apps!!!

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