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Strange message on screen when phone locked

She said strange message was on my friend's phone when he picked it up in the morning. The phone was locked and he had just push the button on the right-hand side of the phone. He thinks that some type of virus or malware. Please let me know if you have any idea what this is.
 

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She said strange message was on my friend's phone when he picked it up in the morning. The phone was locked and he had just push the button on the right-hand side of the phone. He thinks that some type of virus or malware. Please let me know if you have any idea what this is.

That looks like a ad from an app that's installed on the device. Go into Settings and scroll to Apps and look for the culprit that possibly pushed that ad. Or it could have come from a spammed email. It all depends on what app permissions is toggled to run on the device's lock screen.
 
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Thank you for the replies. My friend has been deleting all his spam immediately, making sure not to click on anything, and deleting his browser history daily. This seemed to be working but now he is having new, possibly worse, problems. Last night he got a text from that had a link for an adult hookup site. He didn't click on it and doesn't really know if this is related to his other issues. This morning when he picked his phone up off the charger, there was a message that said his phone needed an update (while still locked). He clicked on the right side button and the phone started downloading the update or whatever it was. He immediately turned off his phone. The phone did this once more when a while later but hasn't since. Do you think he has a virus on his phone?
 
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Thank you for the replies. My friend has been deleting all his spam immediately, making sure not to click on anything, and deleting his browser history daily. This seemed to be working but now he is having new, possibly worse, problems. Last night he got a text from that had a link for an adult hookup site. He didn't click on it and doesn't really know if this is related to his other issues. This morning when he picked his phone up off the charger, there was a message that said his phone needed an update (while still locked). He clicked on the right side button and the phone started downloading the update or whatever it was. He immediately turned off his phone. The phone did this once more when a while later but hasn't since. Do you think he has a virus on his phone?


No, Go into< Setting> scroll down to <G> app. There look for apps with access or connected apps then you will see what's connected to your device and deactivate it from there.
 
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