Since the beginning of time some malicious developers have filled their applications of adware, a type of unwanted software that is responsible for constantly displaying advertisements on the device that, apart from being annoying, may end up spending the battery in a few hours. even infect our device with another type of more dangerous malware.
It may happen that we have installed several applications at the same time in the device and that we do not know exactly which one is creating the notifications in order to uninstall it. We can choose to try one by one until we find the malicious application in question or take other simpler and quicker steps to discover the guilty application in a few seconds.
The latest versions of Android include a feature that allows you to see which application or service has created any of the notifications that appear on the system without the need to use third-party applications. This is very useful in the case that some program is showing publicity and we do not know exactly what it is, because in this way we will be able to know who created it and quickly uninstall it.
All we have to do is open the notification menu of our Android and keep pressing on any of them until the next option appears.
Click on it and we will see a summary about the application that has created this notification and can uninstall it directly from there in the case that we want.
The old versions of Android do not have the previous function, so if we want to easily discover the advertising applications of our device we should choose to use an application designed specifically for this function.
This application is called Airpush detector and can be downloaded for free from the Play Store .
We install and execute this application. The program will analyze all the applications that we have installed.
And it will show us those that probably have some advertising framework in the system.
This way we will know the suspicious application and we can start to uninstall it first and check if the annoying ads have disappeared.
9.1k questions
11.2k answers
86 comments
2 users
Most popular questions within the last 20 days