Avast Mobile not catching Android/Chrome redirects to ad sites

Avast Mobile Security Avast Mobile Security for Android
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I am just opening this thread to get any further inputs on an issue that I’m facing with Chrome browser (v38) on my Android phone (4.2.1) and tablet (4.4.2). The issue is as below:

When I visit any URL, after about 5-10 seconds after the page loads, it gets automatically redirected to http://adfoc.us/ on my phone and to Spaces.slimspotsdotcom both of which seems to be ad serving sites. Pressing the back button closes the tab. I tried Avast scans of all apps and storage on my phone hoping to catch any {ad,mal}ware, but without any luck. I was expecting that Avast would catch this. A discussion about this is going on in Chrome forum:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/chrome/report-a-problem-and-get-troubleshooting-help/android/Stable/Q74jiLWfLdM

and is also being discussed on the Android forum:

http://androidforums.com/threads/android-chrome-redirection-virus-malware-adware.878655/

Appreciate if Avast could help address this with an update.

Thanks,
Sreevathsa

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Passing to viruslab, let’s see what they will say.

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Any updates on this? This continues to bug a large number of users out there.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/chrome/report-a-problem-and-get-troubleshooting-help/android/Stable/Q74jiLWfLdM
http://androidforums.com/threads/android-chrome-redirection-virus-malware-adware.878655/

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Some media coverage on this:

http://www.news.com.au/technology/gadgets/bug-hijacking-web-pages-and-redirecting-users-to-ads-porn-sites-has-experts-concerned/story-fn6vihic-1227181363015

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Please try new version (7875), it contains some solutions concerning these problems - in case it does not work on you device, please let us know. Thanks.