Last year I wanted to check if I don’t have any virus on my phone. I mean I AM usually very careful on the internet, but I am quite new on the Android platform, so I wanted to be sure that I didn’t do anything “wrong”.
I was so stupid that I downloaded avast and installed it, now I can’t get rid of it
I have installed Avast, scanned the phone and found out that I have no viruses (meaning I still know how to behave online ) However after a few hours of using the phone I found the behaviour of the phone too slow and decided to uninstall avast. I did uninstall it like every other app, everything looked like I got rid of it. Until the next time I connected my phone to my wifi network at home.
Now, every single time the phone connects to the internet (either via 3G or wifi), the phone plays an annoying melody, vibrates, and I get the message
“Upgrade avast! Anti-Theft
Download avast! Anti-Theft 2.0.4838”
If I tap it, I get scared a second time (loud noise + vibrating) and I get to the famous
Enter avast! PIN
4-6 digits
PIN Recovery not set
Please set the recovery phone number in the Settings
screen. What PIN ? I didn’t specify any !!! If I try to put a “random” number I get an error, when I tap Cancel the app closes but I still have the damned notification in the notification bar ! I can’t even delete it from it ! Again, “Enter avast! PIN”.
Please, how can I get rid of this annoying piece of … software ? I don’t see ANY avast related application installed on my phone. I tried to re-install it, it didn’t help. I didn’t find any useful tip online I even tried to upgrade Android several times since I installed avast, it didn’t help.
My Phone :
Samsung Galaxy S2 GT-I910, NOT ROOTED
Android version 4.1.2
The phone is not rooted and I would prefer if I didn’t have to do it, I don’t want to lose the warranty.
PLEASE … can somebody help me to get rid of everything avast-related ? I want my phone exactly in the same status as before. I don’t want to hear the annoying incoming sms sound plus the vibration every single time I connect my phone to the Internet.
Thanks a lot