What is this?

[tracerz]

 

[AugieTN]

The "unknown tag" message may pop up on your mobile's screen if you have the NFC feature enabled on your device and you accidentally come into contact with a NFC compatible media, or credit/debit cards.

You can turn NFC off

 

[tracerz]

The "unknown tag" message may pop up on your mobile's screen if you have the NFC feature enabled on your device and you accidentally come into contact with a NFC compatible media, or credit/debit cards.

You can turn NFC off

Thank you so much! It happens often

 

[tracerz]

Thank you so much. It has happened often and I thought I was being hacked.

 

[ocnbrze]

ok just an fyi, if you have something that you cannot explain, does not mean that you have been hacked. getting hacked is a very hard thing to happen. but that does not mean you should not be cautious. but that also means that you should over-react to every little thing that happens on your phone.

.......just saying.

 

[mikedt]

There's many things that have NFC in them that your phone could come in proximity with, e.g. credit/debit cards, ID cards, loyalty cards, driving licenses, passports, metro and bus cards, etc. If you don't actually use the NFC function on your device, just turn it off.

 

[nickdalzell]

ok just an fyi, but something that you cannot explain, does not mean that you have been hacked. getting hacked is a very hard thing to happen. but that does not mean you should not be cautious. but that also means that you should over-react to every little thing that happens on your phone.

.......just saying

I had the opposite issue. Dealt with many who didn't want to believe that BonziBuddy and Butterfly on your Desktop were malware. It was just 'cute' software to them. that and their 50 IE toolbars.

we need more people wary of any weird behavior on our devices today. if I saw that and didn't know what was going on, I'd be worried myself. i used to get incoming calls that said in a really creepy robotic voice, 'goodbye' and hang up. I still don't understand that one and it creeped me the heck out

 

[ocnbrze]

Pc....maybe, but on an android device? I would not worry as much. I have seen to many people come here freaked out over nothing.

 

[nickdalzell]

Does anyone remember Airpush in Android? that justifiably made me skeptical of anything that is outside of what I view as normal. I don't even use a smartphone much these days, so anything that's not music playing or a text message is outside normal for me. The more the government attempts to force me into a dystopian future, the more I retreat to the '50s way of life.

But that aside, I had similar issues trying to convince people that anything Cheetah Mobile made was garbage. That and task killers.