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cilla4progress

(26,526 posts) Sat Oct 14, 2017, 07:22 AM Oct 2017

Am I Russian hacked? [View all]

For the past 6 months or so, about every other time I fire up my android tablet, my weather bug appp is set to a town in Russia...Kragnorsk, Moscow. Must be a part of Moscow.

I deleted it, and it came back.

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Am I Russian hacked? [View all] cilla4progress Oct 2017 OP

Are you running a VPN... IthinkThereforeIAM Oct 2017 #1

No VPN cilla4progress Oct 2017 #2

I am sure a tech wonk... IthinkThereforeIAM Oct 2017 #3

Try installing and running Malwarebytes. GoCubsGo Oct 2017 #4

Super. Thanks! cilla4progress Oct 2017 #5

Hmm.. cilla4progress Oct 2017 #6

Try downloading "Malwarebytes for Android" from Google Play. GoCubsGo Oct 2017 #7

It worked! cilla4progress Oct 2017 #10

Yay! GoCubsGo Oct 2017 #11

Some possible reasons: blogslut Oct 2017 #8

Krasnogorsk, but probably not hacked unc70 Oct 2017 #9

It is a Putin signal, put on the raincoat comrade, it is going to be a Mueller storm Not Ruth Oct 2017 #12