Android/flash problem [EDIT:solved - problem was DNS]

grumpycrab

Hi, starting last night 2 of our Android devices started playing up. bbc and google were inaccessible (flash player out of date needs update). And Gmail app stopped syncing (no connection). Some sort of virus?!?

The "flash player needs an update" included an Adobde-like windows with the bad spelling of UNISTALL which is very suspicious.

aerostar

Android does not have updates for flashplayer as Adobe have discontinued developement for Android some time ago.

What have you installed recently ?

Turn off the items totally - not just sleep and/or If you have a reset button then try that.

paddyrg

iPlayer app doesn't use flash, nor does Google.

Try MalwareBytes to do a scan of your device.

JJ_Egan

Flash Player updates are on the Adobe web site .

grumpycrab

"What have you installed recently ?" Nothing. 2 separate devices (2 different owners). Seems that some sites are allowed, some aren't. playstore is "not available". Will try and manually install malwarebytes.
EDIt: anyobdy know where I can dowwnload the malwarebytes.apk manually? Thanks.

"turn off and on" no difference.

custardy

Go into the apps and force stop them
clear cache

grumpycrab

Hmmm. Tried stopping browser (default browser) and cleared cache. "WARNING" You Flash Player may be out of data" still coming up.
I have also noticed that app notifications (top left Android) aren't being displayed. But that's probably not much help.

Need malwarebytes apk which I can get manually.
EDIT: got it. running a scan now.

aerostar

JJ_Egan wrote: »

Flash Player updates are on the Adobe web site .

On September 10 2013, Adobe released Flash Player 11.1.111.73 for Android 2.x and 3.x and 11.1.115.81 for Android 4.0.x in keeping with statements made in Adobe's publicly available Flash RoadMap.

This release is the final update release of Flash Player for the Android operating system.

There are hacks to get flashplayer running on KitKat

Deneb

Do you have Eset Mobile Security installed? There was a bad definition update released yesterday which caused some problems until it was rectified. I also had "no connection" errors with Google + which seem to have resolved themselves now. Whether the two are connected though, I don't know.

grumpycrab

This is a !!!!!!. (I pride myself in having never had a bad virus and then 2 Android devices in the same house go down at the same time. Grrrr.)

No Eset. I have AVAST. Gmail no connection and various web sites give "warning flash is out of date" - obviously a nasty!
Malwarebytes cleared one device.
On the original problematic device found pup.risktool.mobogen which I will look up now.

EDIT: fixed. When I saw the RANDOM "flash out of date" message on chrome on my laptop I realised there was a common issue.
I've been using Google DNS servers (for months); removed them and everything sprang back to life. I'm sure somebody can explain to me what's just happened (and why you shouldn't mess around with DNS servers;)

paddyrg

Just wondering how you caught the nasty - do you often sideload? That's probably the riskiest vector, Google Play is mostly safe (especially if you check out age, reputation, how the reputation is clustered, etc)