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Cairdeas
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Can someone help me please?The screenshot below is what  keeps popping up and I have no idea what it is.  I have no new apps installed and my virus scan can't find anything.  Beyond annoying now x

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viridis
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Its an app, 100%
What have you installed for the smartwatch?
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Cairdeas
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Just android wear and a couple of faces ..which i uninstalled again . 

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You may have to go into each app you've recently installed or updated and check which has lockscreen permissions.
Just whizz through them in app manager.
I have no affiliation whatsoever with O2 or any subsidiary companies. Comments posted are entirely of my own opinion. This is not Customer Service so we are unable to help with account specific issues.

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Cairdeas
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I'll try everything and come  back later @MI5 ..@viridis..actually still have 2 faces on there..will uninstall them first x

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viridis
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Anything with the word GO in the title, and file managers, memory cleaners, themes are the usual suspects.
That's the reason no anti virus or airpush has picked it up, you have installed it and given permissions to it.
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Cairdeas
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No lockscreen permissions on any app. It only started tonight and I haven't installed anything! No themes or anything! I'll try facebook too. Going to look again before i factory reset this thing..driving me nuts x

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viridis
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Its creating its own fake lockscreen, after swiping it away does the phone instantly unlock? Does this just pop up at any time? If so, it's a false lockscreen.
But one app is behind it...... Either that or you've had a pornhub pop-up and you clicked the imaginary cancel button which actually is an install button.....
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It won't be Facebook, too big a company to risk the fallout from adware
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viridis
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Screenshot your installed app list
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Cairdeas
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@viridis wrote:
Its creating its own fake lockscreen, after swiping it away does the phone instantly unlock? Does this just pop up at any time? If so, it's a false lockscreen.
But one app is behind it...... Either that or you've had a pornhub pop-up and you clicked the imaginary cancel button which actually is an install button.....

It does instantly unlock and pops up anytme. That other thing..I don't watch lol x

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