My tablet got hung up on something that changed our home page and google locked the tablet saying the site was being compromised. I had to go back to factory too to clear it out. I believe my son let it in thru a game site.
I use CM Security and so far no problems. I use it on my phone too.'

 

Sounds like the old FBI scam. It's easy to avoid it. Don't try to click out of it in fact don't click on anything. Just restart your machine and stay off that site.

 

+1



My son is a senior Manager for Regions Bank for Data Security.

When those "ransom" things first started out he told us that ANY response even if it is simply to minimize the screen will trip em off.

Consequently I am +1 with "sicumj"

noremf(George)

 

There was a download that started while I was playing solitaire. Thought it was stopped in time, but, probably not.

 

free AVAST

this is very good protection and the basic is free. I am pleased,it has protected my puter for a couple of years now. I got that FBI ransom a few years ago when it first started, I had to have my repair guy get rid of it.

 

I'll second Avast, works well and has caught many attacks. You can also load Malwarebytes free software that will do a good job of debugging your tablet.

 

Reboot and clear history before opening the browser

 

Those gaming sites are the worst for letting this stuff in.

 

I have seen this on a ipad I have, I hit the home button twice and closed the browser then went to setting and cleared all history from Safari I honestly do not know if there is a similar solution for Android maybe settings>apps>browser> clear cache after forcing the app to quit?

 

On iOS devices the most foolproof procedure for a "click jacked" browser is;

1; most importantly, click/tap on NOTHING on the web page displayed
2; quit the browser completely
3; double click the home button to pull up the running apps
4; click on the home window with all your apps *and* Settings
5; click "settings" and go to Wi-Fi, turn it off, go to Cellular, turn it off too

At this point, all wireless connectivity is off, the device cannot connect to the Internet or remote servers in any way, this is good, we want this, the reason why is because Safari generally remembers the last website you were on, and helpfully saves it when you quit, so when you relaunch the app, it'll load right up where you left off, normally this is a nice convenience, but remember, the *last* page that was loaded was the click jacker page, if you relaunched safari with wireless on, it'd just reload the click jacker page

But now, Safari won't be able to load *ANYTHING* (which is what we want right now) so it'll attempt to load that page, be unable to reach the scumbags, and then throw up an error message about being unable to load that page, clear the error box, you'll probably find that the scambagger' page has opened a seperate tab, simply close that tab, or go back one page (the page might display if the information is still in the iOS devices memory, but no links will work due to the no connectivity thing)

Just to be safe, after you've closed the scambucketer' page, quit the browser one more time and relaunch just to see what page attempts to load, if it's the page previous to the scamjacking, then you're good, if not, if it's still the scambucketers page, then you'll need to reset safari, that'll nuke your cookies and stored passwords, but it'll also kill the scammers page (if only it killed the actual scammers as well, about the only legitimate use of high yield thermonuclear devices anymore, vaporizing scammers and identity thieves, I think...)

Anyway, back on track

So, if reloading safari takes you back to the un compromised page, you can now go back and re-enable your wireless comms (WiFi and Cellular), and just avoid clicking the link that opened the scammer page

This also works for those horrid links that open your devices App Store without your permission, usually to foist some stupid "freemium" game at you

Just remember the first rule, you do not talk about fight clu....err, no, you treat every firearm like its load....err wrong in this instance, the first rule after you're click jacked is click *nothing* on the page, and quit the browser.

Of course, the best solution to prevent click jacking on RFC is to simply ban *ALL* ads, but then again, I'm the person who just recommended liberal bombardment of advertisers with high yield nukes, so I might be *slightly* biased against ads here....