My grandpa has a Samsung galaxy s8. He's still fairly new to the smartphone era. When playing his games or on the internet, I believe he sees those ads that say "you have a virus, you need to clean it now, click here" and he must be clicking it. When he said his phone was acting up. I looked at it. He had 10 "cleaning" apps. I tried looking in the google play store and all those apps but 1 were not in his "current" apps category. I think those apps were downloaded from Google or firefox, or whatever the tmoble factory search engine is. I was able to "uninstall most of them but the ads kept coming and wouldn't let me delete. Some of them I had to hit the arrow back button, go back and try again. Some were able to delete, some were not. We tell him not to click on it, but he still does. He had a virus a few months ago. Tmobile reset and cleaned the phone. This time is the worst it has ever been. When I was looking through the phone I would get ads on the home screen, in the factory phone call app, the factory messages app, etc. It would get ads and "clean phone" notifications every few seconds. All the ads were "you have a virus, clean your phone" ads. What do we do to avoid him from clicking virus prone shit. Will paid anti-virus subscriptions block the virus even if he does start clicking on shit he shouldn't be again. Do we trade the phone in and get an iPhone? Does iPhone have better anti-virus safe guards? We just dont want him be a victim of a scam. We can't babysit him with his phone use 24/7. He lives in a senior citizen home. What to do? Where to start? Thanks   submitted by   /u/unitedpassenger1   to   r/AndroidQuestions [link]   [komentarze]