ads on avast app for phone

system · 2017-02-01T21:28:19.000Z

Just thought it was rather poor judgement for a antivirus app to have an ad that states i have 637 viruses on my phone and to click on ad to fix them. WTF so my avast app has missed 637 viruses if so why do i bother even having avast if it is so lousy at protecting me. LOL

Eddy · 2017-02-01T21:33:44.000Z

More details and a screenshot could/would help.

On a note, I never seen or heard of a virus for a phone.
Malware, yes.
Virus, no.

Pondus · 2017-02-01T21:34:49.000Z

What program say you have 637 virus?

system · 2017-02-01T21:49:41.000Z

Its was an ad that was on the app the free avast phone app. I know it was click bait but thought it was funny for such an ad to show up on a on avast app

Pondus · 2017-02-01T21:52:44.000Z

I guess you did see a fake alert

All avast popups will have avast logo / name. From where did you download avast app?

Eddy · 2017-02-01T22:07:30.000Z

And about what tool are you talking about ?
avast has multiple ones for phones.

DavidR · 2017-02-01T22:55:23.000Z

There are ads in the avast mobile security and these aren’t necessarily from avast, but from an ad service.

I suspect the same may well be the case for many web ad services getting malvertising (ad poisoning) an ad leading to malware.

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