Well, that’s interesting… Seeing as I am on an iPhone, and therefore (I assume) pretty invulnerable to any malicious software, I let the App Store load all the way to wherever I was being hijacked to.
The answer: Candycrush bloody saga. What’s all that about then????
However, that doesn’t stop the company using deceptive tactics to get you to install it in the first place, which is what is happening here I think.
* Whilst the app itself might be legit and not harbor any malicious code to skim credit cards, it may be legitimately sending data or something else about your usage or whatever for the owners to sell on or worse. I personally wouldn’t install it under any circumstances.
I have both an iphone and s4 .
I have no issue with the iphone but lovelinks.us warning on chrome and android internet (whatever that is).
I know I shpuld have stayed with IOS as I never had a problem with it.
This S4 is bloody awful phone.
I have noticed an add that looks dodgy, it appears at the top of the page and looks like a Facebook bar but with no writing, just a flashing message icon, when I clicked on it it tells me I’ve won a free app, obviously I’ve not gone any further but could this have anything to do with the problem?
I have both an iphone and s4 .
I have no issue with the iphone but lovelinks.us warning on chrome and android internet (whatever that is).
I know I shpuld have stayed with IOS as I never had a problem with it.
This S4 is bloody awful phone.
Sorry to spoil your moan but people are having the same issues on iOS. The problem is with the advert providers and is absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with the OS or browser which is simply displaying that data it is served.
Just read this all the way through, and so far I’ve not seen any of these pop-ups, either on my pad or phone.
However, I usually only go on here in the evening, and that’s via wifi at home. Since this issue popped up, (snigger), I’ve not had an opportunity to grab sneaky looks at STW while at work, so no idea about over phone networks.
Just out of interest, how long do you have to be using STW before this pop-up appears? I’ve turned off wifi on the pad, and I’ve been using it for about thirty-forty minutes, and nothing has appeared yet. That’s on O2. I can’t try on 3, the signal in this part of town is almost non-existent.
Had my first experience of this today on my new phone. Get a warning message flash up for a split second then the screen goes blank and the phone shuts down completely then powers up. Only happens on STW as the ads load up. Can stay on other sites for ages without a problem.
Sony Xperia SP, Android 4.1.2 using Chrome browser on O2. Doesn’t happen on the built-in browser.
HTC Desire S, ancient android 2.3.5, and for the first time getting the lovelink.us “you’re app store needs updating” popup. On open free hotel WiFi and never had it on home network, but only getting on STW site.
I fell for the bogus Java update. Lots of programme deleting, remove Firefox including all personal settings, OS back to a recovery point, reinstall Firefox, all OK now. Except Chrome which is still screwed but only serves as a back-up browser. Apart from the games everyone else gets I get some specific French things saying I’ve won an i-pad. AVG sends me a warning from time to time and Malwarbytes considers the stuff automatically downloaded when I use STW to be nasty. There were about 80 STW related things to be deleted the last time I ran a scan. Watching the adresses flashing up bottom left when I open an STW page is amusing but not reassuring.
But surely it’s only the app that would propagate an exploit to drive users to download it? Qui bono? Or have I misunderstood?
Or it could be the app developers have an affiliate program that someone is taking advantage of. There’s lots of poorly run affiliate programs out there where they don’t worry about fraud as long as the sales come in.