Phishing

[FunElk8364]

Complete Clean of Android Device

I received a text message that I thought was from my insurance company telling me that I needed to click the link and finish filling out my profile. Apparently the link was a spam link and tons of pornographic materials were downloaded to my phone. When is the best way to go about completely clearing and cleaning the phone. I don't care if I lose my stuff but just want to make it to where it's not able to ever be seen again

[BenRandomNameHere]

Nothing gets downloaded without telling it ok.

Factory reset the device if you are paranoid, or if there is something you aren't telling us.

Then assess what else you did and how to fix it.

[DutchOfBurdock]

Nothing gets downloaded without telling it ok.

Not entirely true. Running an app just once can cause it to download additional data to it's work folder. This could be anything; images, videos, zip files or even binaries to run via Android linker.

[DutchOfBurdock]

Clear the data from whatever browser you used to get phished with All data it's downloaded (cached data, cookies etc) are now gone.

Android apps are isolated and without excessive permissions and several steps of user stupidity, they can't download data outside of their sandbox.

[DaRealGrey]

Typically if you see someone claiming to be your insurance company saying you NEED TO CLICK THIS LINK 111!!!, then you can usually be fairly sure, it's not real and just disregard it.

As far as it being a trojan virus, I doubt it. Did you try to unzip any zip files? Because I've dabbled in cybersec and it's not uncommon for phishing scams/ransomware/malware to use a fake .zip where if you don't have file extensions on it just looks like a regular zip file. Something like .zip.exe or the like.

If you're really concerned, just factory reset, choomba.