Livid - porn on my phone! please help

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I'm not the most tech savvy person, can anyone help please?

Last night I was posting on Mumsnet and an advert for a sex chat site appeared out of nowhere which had a close up video of a woman using a vibrator on herself that completely filled the screen .

How did I inadvertently do this? It was on the Louise Mensch thread, I followed a link to the tweet and read it, then went back to post my message. I think when I hit post is when the porn appeared but I can't be entirely sure. I couldn't work out how to get it to stop either for a minute, or how to close the page.

I don't want porn on my phone ffs! What can I do?

But we do understand why you've screen grabbed to show us as NE CRICKET PAS
Apols again

I've just had the porn one pop up . Was on active threads, no links clicked.
Windows Phone

Samsung tablet just now reading a thread im aibu. Opened the next page and just as i started reading a porn page opened up. Using the on board browser.

This has just happened again - some bloody site called snapfuck followed by the virus pop up

I've just had a porn ad popup too. I was in threads I'm on and then it changed the url to whatever the page was. I'm on Google chrome on mobile.

Porn site for me too on a kindle fire. No ad clicking. Done a factory reset and it is back as soon as I return to mn.

You've got a big problem!!

Hello again everyone

We're really sorry this has taken so long - the redirects are bloody horrid and we're mortified that you've been subject to them.

Unfortunately we've not been able to identify the rogue ad, so we're turning them all off now. This will take about 30 mins so please do bear with us till then.

In the morning we'll regroup and try again, and we might at that point enlist your help by asking some of you to download an app that makes it easier for us to hunt down the culprits, but we'll explain more tomorrow. Apols again, folks, really.

And the virus pop up too.

Stay off mn everyone - wouldn't want this on my laptop!

Just had that happen , was scrolling Active and ended up on local 'ladlies' - kindle fire

Had the same today on android tablet, porn and gambling. I had a hotel ad just before that on the top edge of the screen both times, might be coincidence.

It's hAppening on my kindle fire but I have ads turned off

Hi all,

Dan from Tech here, we're sorry to hear this is happening, nothing worse than going to a thread about school uniforms and being blasted with porn popups.

Reading through this thread it looks like this is happening to people using android devices, so it sounds like some malware/vicious app has been downloaded onto your phones. At the moment there seems to be a big issue with fake versions of the Pokemon Go app that seem to be causing malware issues, you can read more about that here:
www.ibtimes.co.uk/pokemon-go-fake-android-app-delivers-first-ever-lockscreen-malware-that-clicks-porn-ads-1570930

But don't panic these can be removed. Here are some tips on how to get rid of malware on your device:

www.androidcentral.com/help-my-android-has-malware

The general idea is to remove any suspicious apps from your phone, download some anti virus software onto your device like AVG and run a scan to check if any malware remains. If those fail then I would backup anything from your phone you would like to keep like photos/messages and do a full factory reset. Obviously this is a last resort just incase the first two don't work.

Let me know if you need anymore information on this

Nothing to do with Pokemon and it's been happening a long time- I think I reported it at least 6 weeks ago.

Only happens on MN ,never at any other time.

In fact first time it happened I had a different phone so this one is new. Both have anti virus.

Just double checked and scanned for viruses, no threats found.

Thanks for this. I'd hit a link a few days ago, then yesterday had porn pop up while browsing MN. It is reassuring that I'm not the only one!

Really? A whole load of us have simultaneously downloaded malware that makes porn appear on one particular selected website? The only thing I've downloaded lately is MyFitnessPal. TBH I'm loath to do a full backup and factory reset just for porn on one website (one which isn't exactly internationally renowned for its attention to security…). Yes, I know I should be doing regular backups anyway. Shoot me.

Are you absolutely, utterly sure the problem isn't at your end? Because this is a lot of hassle for your users if it turns out the problem is yours.

Don't worry, BTW, I'm not "panicking"; I've been removing tricky trojan infestations from computers for years, and won't be "panicking". Could you tell us any more about this malware?

one which isn't exactly internationally renowned for its attention to security…)

That!!

Additionally, ISTR at least one person upthread mentioning that they're on iOS, which suggests that Safari on iOS is less vulnerable to whatever this is, but not immune.

I don't do pokemon go. I have a malware detector on my android device and it only happens when using MN. No other webpage has directed me to porn and I had no other tabs open. I am not convinced this is the solution. It hasn't happened today yet.

Nope. I am using an iPhone, and haven't downloaded any apps for months

Since it only happens using MN there are 2 solutions:

1. Laborious factory reset, losing apps, data and settings
2. Don't use MN

I'm confused because a little bit happened slowly over a period of time and then there was a massive flurry of it happening on mumsnet last night and then quiet overnight and this morming.

I admit I am normally sceptical and presume other people are idiots.... until it happened to me. I'm not downloading rubbish and spamming my own phone. I don't think it's a coincidence and I'm a little disappointed in the answer from tech.

Yeah and I'm not panicking, I just don't want that sort of crap popping up on my sodding phone