Sunday, January 01, 2017

My Fix for the browser hijack that displays this error "Your system is heavily damaged by Four virus!"

On my Android S6 phone, there was a simple fix to this error

Your system is heavily damaged by Four virus!

If you see an error that resembles this.

Don't click the "repair fast now" button or the "ok" prompt.

If you are in the fist prompt. Just scroll to the top of the page. Note the URL, In my case, it was "http://us.ahateu.top/...". Then go into your browser history.


1. Click the three dots
2. Go to "History"
3. Delete all references to http://us.ahateu.top/..."
4. Then click on one of the browser history items from a few days ago to load a new page.
5. Then close your browser and restart it.

If it worked it should load the last page you opened from your browser history not the offending page with the silly prompt that you are infected with four viruses.  

or this:

  

As a background to this issue. It is caused most likely because Google Chrome is your default browser. On Android the Google Chrome browser likes to be helpful and it remembers the last page you visited so the folks that made this hijack page leverage that helpfulness they know that Chrome will try to reload the page and if they prompt you with a nasty message that tempts you to click on the OK button then they got you! Don't click it!!!

If you restart your phoned or kill the browser it when you open the browser next time it will just reopen the offending page again. 


So to reiterate. To get rid of it go to the Google Chrome browser history and delete all instances of the URL you see in the browser address bar. On my phone that was a URL called "http://us.ahateu.top/..."