Prevention Information Message

howie411 · Oct 23, 2013

Ok, so I've seen a few post regarding this but looks like its from folks with rooted devices or Galaxy S4.

For the last 4 days I've been getting the following: Prevention Information Message: An application has been forced to stop for an unauthorized attempt to access system in your device.

I can click ok, and all it does it show me a list of running stuff. But not what item is causing the error.

If I look at my most recent updates: the following Apps were updated:

AT&T Messages
Lookout Security (Not using this)
PEN.UP
Sansung WatchON
YP Local Search and Gas Prices
Ant Radio Service
AT&T DriveMode

Any ideas?

dreadylock · Oct 24, 2013

I'm having the same problem
this is what it says:
an application has been forced to stop for an unauthorized access to system in your device.

it may be safe to delete an application obtained from an unauthorized route check now
I'm on stock android all my apps are from the play store and lookout says there's no malware
what could this be and how do i get rid of it?

howie411 · Oct 24, 2013

dreadylock said:
I'm having the same problem
this is what it says:
an application has been forced to stop for an unauthorized access to system in your device.

it may be safe to delete an application obtained from an unauthorized route check now
I'm on stock android all my apps are from the play store and lookout says there's no malware
what could this be and how do i get rid of it?

I contacted Samsung but they weren't much help. They seem to think it was a bad ATT Messaging App update, but after we removed it, and cleared the cache it was still happening. So they told me to contact ATT, go figure....

dreadylock · Oct 24, 2013

same ole same ole

last nighy i went thru all my apps the only new thing i install and had running was bbm for android so i force stop it and the problem seems to went away i'll be checking on it every hour to be certain :victory::victory:

howie411 · Oct 24, 2013

dreadylock said:
last nighy i went thru all my apps the only new thing i install and had running was bbm for android so i force stop it and the problem seems to went away i'll be checking on it every hour to be certain :victory::victory:

I ended up just wiping my phone, wasn't much on it yet. I had tried uninstalling the following things first, and didnt seem to help.

Ant+ Plugin+
Ant Radio Service
AT&T DriveMode
AT&T Messages
PEN.UP

Now I will just install 1 thing at a time and see which breaks it.

dreadylock · Oct 24, 2013

i wanto believe its probably knox
cuase mines came back
i'll try the wipe action today

itkowitz · Oct 25, 2013

dreadylock said:
i wanto believe its probably knox
cuase mines came back
i'll try the wipe action today

Same issue. I have no idea what's causing it. Anyone have any insight on this yet?

My phone isn't rooted.

King Mustard · Oct 25, 2013

I get the same message when I try to run an app that has been restored by Titanium Backup.

"Unknown sources" is ticked.

"Verify apps" is unticked.

The device is rooted via. CF-Auto-Root-jflte-jfltexx-gti9505 and I'm running the latest firmware as of late October 2013.

Confused and frustrated!

NaxIonz · Oct 27, 2013

I started getting this today. Everything is stock.

Connecting to WiFi seems to trigger it.

NaxIonz · Oct 28, 2013

What is so infuriating about this, is that it doesn't tell you which app it is blocking. What in the hell is the point of blocking something if you're not going to even tell me what the potential threat was?!

jollyjones · Oct 29, 2013

Same problem! Tell me what app to uninstall you dang phone! Can someone please help us?

Sent from my SM-N900T using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

eduaf1 · Oct 30, 2013

The same

The same problem ... Anyone have a solution ???

My model is N9005 and rooted

howie411 · Oct 31, 2013

eduaf1 said:
The same problem ... Anyone have a solution ???

My model is N9005 and rooted

So I wiped my phone and did 1 to 2 installs of apps a day (left all the ATT stuff until the end). This morning I started getting the message again.

It has to be from either AT&T Drive, or AT&T Locker. Those are the last 2 I installed before it started happening. The odd thing is I uninstalled those and then actually turned them off and its still happening. So I dont even know what to do at this point.

Guide6 · Oct 31, 2013

howie411 said:
So I wiped my phone and did 1 to 2 installs of apps a day (left all the ATT stuff until the end). This morning I started getting the message again.

It has to be from either AT&T Drive, or AT&T Locker. Those are the last 2 I installed before it started happening. The odd thing is I uninstalled those and then actually turned them off and its still happening. So I dont even know what to do at this point.

I don't have any of the AT&T stuff and I got the message. As said previously, it is triggered by turning your wi-fi on. If you restart your phone with wifi on without turning it off and on or loosing connection, you don't get the message.

I went through force closing all my apps one by one, same thing.

husnain.mohammed · Oct 31, 2013

I kept receiving this message. However I tried this today and the message doesn't appear anymore in the notification bar. What I did was when 'prevention message' appear I long pressed on the message and press 'app info'. It led straight to knox notification. I force stopped it, cleared the data and cache. Then straight away I went to settings> general> security, and unticked unknown sources. Worked for me

Guide6 · Oct 31, 2013

husnain.mohammed said:
I kept receiving this message. However I tried this today and the message doesn't appear anymore in the notification bar. What I did was when 'prevention message' appear I long pressed on the message and press 'app info'. It led straight to knox notification. I force stopped it, cleared the data and cache. Then straight away I went to settings> general> security, and unticked unknown sources. Worked for me

I tried your way and it works for me now, finger crossed!

Limeybastard · Oct 31, 2013

husnain.mohammed said:
I kept receiving this message. However I tried this today and the message doesn't appear anymore in the notification bar. What I did was when 'prevention message' appear I long pressed on the message and press 'app info'. It led straight to knox notification. I force stopped it, cleared the data and cache. Then straight away I went to settings> general> security, and unticked unknown sources. Worked for me

Tried it we shall see.

Sent from my SM-N900T

Guide6 · Oct 31, 2013

husnain.mohammed said:
I kept receiving this message. However I tried this today and the message doesn't appear anymore in the notification bar. What I did was when 'prevention message' appear I long pressed on the message and press 'app info'. It led straight to knox notification. I force stopped it, cleared the data and cache. Then straight away I went to settings> general> security, and unticked unknown sources. Worked for me

Isn't Knox the app that is originally giving this warning? If you force close it, it will stop giving the message without solving the reason of the message. The problem is solved by unchecking the Unknown Sources and clearing cache and data without force closing knox.

husnain.mohammed · Oct 31, 2013

Guide6 said:
Isn't Knox the app that is originally giving this warning? If you force close it, it will stop giving the message without solving the reason of the message. The problem is solved by unchecking the Unknown Sources and clearing cache and data without force closing knox.

It wouldn't work for me wben I just unchecked the unknown sources. It worked when I long pressed on the prevention message and cleared cache and data then untick unknown sources

LarsChristian · Oct 31, 2013

howie411 said:
So I wiped my phone and did 1 to 2 installs of apps a day (left all the ATT stuff until the end). This morning I started getting the message again.

It has to be from either AT&T Drive, or AT&T Locker. Those are the last 2 I installed before it started happening. The odd thing is I uninstalled those and then actually turned them off and its still happening. So I dont even know what to do at this point.

Guide6 said:
I don't have any of the AT&T stuff and I got the message. As said previously, it is triggered by turning your wi-fi on. If you restart your phone with wifi on without turning it off and on or loosing connection, you don't get the message.

I went through force closing all my apps one by one, same thing.

Don't have anything from AT&T, they are not even a carrier in my country, and I also get this message

husnain.mohammed said:
I kept receiving this message. However I tried this today and the message doesn't appear anymore in the notification bar. What I did was when 'prevention message' appear I long pressed on the message and press 'app info'. It led straight to knox notification. I force stopped it, cleared the data and cache. Then straight away I went to settings> general> security, and unticked unknown sources. Worked for me

Did this now, seems to work. I'll wait until tomorrow to give it a Y or N.

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