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While using the Webbrowser I got suddenly a hint that a virus is on my Ubuntu Touch Device. My Phone made a beep-beep sound and showed this page:

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Is this true or is it a fake?

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i am quite sure that is some virus scam. I bet they try to make you send or receive a paid sms or such a thing. But i am not aware of a method to harm your sim-card. This looks like an overlay Fullscreen Advertisment from back in the days when not everyone was using addBlock on Desktop Browsers.

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Can the Webbrowser really switch to fullscreen without asking? I remember that at the moment the warning appeared I was still able to switch to other apps. I e. The warning was shown by the webbrowser itself. – eDeviser Feb 13 '16 at 9:52
    
See sophos.com/en-us/threat-center/threat-analyses/… This seems to be a method since some time now. Could work with the informations the Browser gives out to show your language and the generic Touch OS. – k1l Feb 13 '16 at 10:11
    
So do I understand right, that my screenshot above shows just a full screen homepage which is generated by my browsers data like'used OS' and preferred language. – eDeviser Feb 13 '16 at 19:11
    
i would say so. i dont know anything besides that screenshot. Could still be a malicious app that got installed (by you (maybe not knowing its malicious)) but then that should still ask you to get access to stuff like contacts, sending a sms, ... due to the security setup. – k1l Feb 14 '16 at 0:58

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