Safari problem? Virus, trojan, spyware, adware?

I am having the same problem. What doesn't seem to be clear is that when the adking popup sends me to the appstore, I can no longer access the program I was trying to view. So...it is not just annoying that it keeps popping up, it is actually preventing us from doing our online browsing. What's the point of having an iphone if safari is unusable?

How do you access itunes app removal?

To remove an app, tap and hold the icon until it starts to wiggle and a black "X" appears in the upper left corner of the icon. Tap on the "X". Note: you cannot remove the built in apps.

No - do not remove apps from your iphone - that is not good enough. You must remove all of its lingering content. The only way to do this is thru itunes, app, remove:

Connect your iphone to your computer

Open itunes

Your iphone will appear on left side (view ) of itunes

Highlight iphone with mouse - and tabs on right side of itune will show the information content stroed within your iphone. click on the App tab

From the app tab scroll down until you see each game and social network app

click on one of them, and on right click on remove - and it will change to remove when you rsync

do this for each app to be removed -i .e. each game/ social network app

then - click on apply/sync and all of these game/social network apps and their lingering content will be completely wiped off your iphone.

Just presseing the hold button on your ipnone and then clicking the x on each app while they are squiggling to remove each one , does not accomplish the same thing. It will leave its lingering data behind and worse , the next time you sync your iphone, it will restore the app itself.

clbchase4 wrote:

Just presseing the hold button on your ipnone and then clicking the x on each app while they are squiggling to remove each one , does not accomplish the same thing. It will leave its lingering data behind and worse , the next time you sync your iphone, it will restore the app itself.

That is not what I was suggesting the poster do. What you are describing is closing an app completely out of memory. What I said was to tap on the icon, not tap the Home (not "hold" ) button, then tap on the black X. (If you double tap the Home button then tap and hold an icon, you get a red minus sign). Yes, this will remove the app and its associated files from the iPhone.

My iPhone keeps doing this also. I'll be surfing and suddenly my phone redirects to the App Store and tries to download Candy crush.

I will try this later, but wondering if this whole process has worked for anyone? What a pain! Ugh!

While this doesn't 'solve' the problem, I've just blocked the website 'adtrack.king.com' in Safari and that stops the App Store from opening. In Settings/General/Restrictions/Websites select Limited Adult Content, then under Never Allow, select Add a Website and add adtrack.king.com, problem 'solved'!

Now if I could find a way to keep childrens apps from launching Safari in the first place I'd be happy!

This problem started for me about a week ago. I added some apps recently and thought maybe the Culprit was the angrybirds Star Wars game. I deleted it and the problem seems to have stopped. Hope this helps.

I have fixed this issue on my iPhone.

I changed the DNS settings on my wireless connection to use DNS servers that block the offending servers. I end up with ad blocking and no more app store opening bs.

To do it, use this article to change your DNS: http://www.macinstruct.com/node/558

and enter these DNS addresses:

87.118.111.215

213.187.11.62

as found on this website: http://www.fooldns.com/fooldns-community/english-version/

This should help android users: https://support.myrepublic.com.sg/entries/23817343-How-do-I-check-or-change-the- DNS-settings-on-an-Android-phone-

I do not think it'll work on 3G or LTE on iPhones because you cannot set the DNS for those networks. But it works for wireless.

If you ever want to switch back to how it was, just delete the addresses that you entered and your device will use the network defaults as they originally did.

Please test and let me know if it works for you too.

GOOGLE... can you use it?

http://digiday.com/publishers/shady-mobile-app-install-ads/

It's not your device, it's not anything on your device, it's the websites you are visiting. Hopefully apple will fix this garbage in their next update. It's entirely unacceptable.

To prevent App Store from popping up while browsing web pages with ad-redirection, just disable installing apps in iOS's restriction setting. Enable it again when you wanna install/update something from your device.

Hi, i had the same problem but i think i've found a solution: go to "settings", "cellular", then you see below "use cellular data for", and then you desactivate appstore. Did it ten minutes ago and it seems to work

As some have already mentioned, the issue can be that somehow your dns can be hacked. Your home router can be hacked, and the dns changed, and the dns can be changed on your ipad/iphone as well. You need to fix the issue BOTH on your router and your device. You don't need to uninstall apps, reset your device, etc. just make sure your dns settings are good. And make sure they are good on all your devices and your router or the problem will come back.

See http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2014/03/isps-fault-home-broadband-router-ge ts-hacked.html

I have just experienced the problem, how frustrating!

On trying to fix it I noticed that it only affects certain websites, for example, when I try to visit gearzandbeers.com I get redirected to the apple store, but if I try to visit twitch.tv there is no problem.

This is a problem that is known to apple but there is no fix, resetting your iPhone will not solve it apparrently, some say manually removing all social media apps and games will work, that's not something I really fancy trying 😀

here is an article about the problem:

http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/06/shady-app-install-ads-are-automatically-redirec ting-mobile-users-to-app-store-google-play/