[XDA Assist] Redserious:
Hey guys!

This is my first post here, and I come with a problem that affects 2/3 android devices and possibly one desktop PC (Windows).

The problem:

I have malware on my devices and said malware redirects my current page to a russian advertising one. Most of the time i'm redirected to one that activates the vibration, knows the device i'm currenty using and says that I should run a virus scan with AVG.

If I hit return, the page just reloads, If I hit it enough times, I lose the page I was visiting as if I hadn't visited it in the first place.

Here

imgur.com/a/5dvVR

are some of the URLs I'm redirected to and sometimes, I happen to suffer the problem on the last page, where an ad sits in the middle of the page I'm visiting and If I close it, another tab opens and leads me to the addresses above.​

Symptoms:

This problem happens with Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and the built-in browser of "Reddit is fun".

This problem happens with and without a WiFi connection. It is more common to happen while on WiFi vs on mobile.

Sites like knowyourmeme.com, foxtrotalfa.jalopnik.com and albums on imgur.com can trigger the malware.​

Devices:

Definitively affected:

Lg G2 D-802 , Android 4.4.2

Galaxy Tab S 10.5" SM-T800, Android 5.0.2

Probably affected but not 100% proven:

Huawei Y600 (another carrier, but the problem happened on my GF's WiFi rarely on mobile), workphone

A desktop PC (the ad blocking the page happened just once)

Networks

This desktop PC is my GF's. It's in her WiFi signal that I usually connect and update the apps on my devices. In my house's WiFi the problem seems to happen as well on my devices but not on my Desktop PC (or perhaps it does, but I have ublock origin on my browsers).

However, I can trigger this problem on my G2's carrier Movistar and not on the Huawei's Carrier Telcel.​

Working on the problem:

Disabling scripts

The very first thing I did was testing disabling scripts (as suggested by one page I found on google), It did work, to some extent. However, I knew that this wasn't a solution but a workaround.​

Suspicious APPs

I know that apps are the main entrance for malware and since the problem DID happened on both devices (G2 and Galaxy Tab) It.HAD to be a common app, so I made a list of common apps and started by the less trustworthy.

I uninstalled and tested Advice animal creator, BS player free, zooper pro, Days counter widget, Disk Usage,electrodroid, ****ing weather, Google tasks organizer lite, GPS test, meme generator, system info for android,reddit is fun , add watermark and Think.

Keep in mind that these apps fill the criteria in which both are present on the phone and tablet and are suspicious to me (a

very

ambiguous term), however, I'm not stating that any of these have malware on them.

Sadly, after uninstalling and testing on the phone, the problem persisted.​

G2's Factory restoration (Through options menu, not recovery menu)

After going through a factory restoration on the phone, the problem persisted. The only things I had installed were Reddit is fun, facebook and whatsapp.
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My request to you guys:

After all ofthis wall of text (in which I show the symptoms, what I've done, etc) , here comes my request.

Can you guys point me to the right direction?

I just don't want to wipe my devices without knowing what is the problem, how to eliminate it and, MOST IMPORTANTLY, how to prevent it.

What I want to discard is if the problem comes from my GF's network (If that is the case, a factory-through-recovery restoration would be useless), an app or just random malvertising.

I would hate to wipe my cellphone and tablet everytime I jump into this problem and that is not practical for me, I prefer a head-on approach.

Thanks in advance guys!​