After rooting 5.0.1 with KingRoot getting popup ads

Papote13

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After wasting a couple of days and re-flashing multiple times my Samsung SGH-I537 to get to stock 5.0.1, I rooted using KingRoot. After I rooted, I noticed that it changed my lock screen with a battery monitor app. I managed to uninstall the app, but every now and then I get a popup ad and sometimes my chrome app opens with a page with an ad.

I have tried installing and running Anti Adware, Adware Removal, and Avast, but it didn't find anything.

I have installed and run Super-Sume 5.8, but it freezes at "Cleaning up KingRoot artifacts..."I uninstalled KingRoot SuperSU and installed Super

Is there any way to remove this without having to do another restore?
 

forjack842

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Dec 31, 2015
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Finally killed the KingRoot Random Pop Up Ads!

With KingRoot (kingroot-pc-3-2-0-1129.exe
0 active on my Android 5.1 tablet and a Screen Lock Ad present, I adb'd in and su'd to root. Did a #ps | grep "locker" and found "com.kingroot.kinguser:locker". Then using its PID I did a #kill -9 PID killing the ad. So at / did a #find . -name "com.kingroot.kinguser.locker". Found it at "/data/data/com.kingroot.kinguser/files/plugin/5001/work"
Did a
#ls
com.kingroot.kinguser
com.kingroot.kinguser_cc
com.kingroot.kinguser_locker
com.kingroot.kinguser_service
com.kingroot.kinguser_task
com.kingroot.kinguser_work

Then did #mv com.kingroot.kinguser_locker com.kingroot.kinguser_locker.crap
Verified
#ls
com.kingroot.kinguser
com.kingroot.kinguser_cc
com.kingroot.kinguser_locker.crap
com.kingroot.kinguser_service
com.kingroot.kinguser_task
com.kingroot.kinguser_work

No KingRoot more ads
 
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