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Dec 4, 2013 5:30 PM in response to SuperNMYby evilass69,I'm having the same issue. Ive restored to factory settings and my phone is still acting like a schizo. appple needs to drop the we have no virus thing. Sure, and STD's dont exist in beverly hills
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Dec 4, 2013 5:37 PM in response to evilass69by Lawrence Finch,There are no iPhone viruses. If there's something wrong with your phone take it to an Apple store for analysis.
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Dec 5, 2013 3:34 AM in response to evilass69by Michael Black,evilass69 wrote:
appple needs to drop the we have no virus thing. Sure, and STD's dont exist in beverly hills
It is not Apple saying that - it is all of the various security companies that track virus, trojans and malware who are reporting none in the wild for Apple iOS.
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Dec 10, 2013 3:31 PM in response to SuperNMYby Stansley,I am having similar behavior with a new iPhone 5s. Suddenly the phone was launching new programs, typing in Safari's URL entry window, changing prefs in the settig window. I'm just sitting there watching this happen. The phone was plugged into AC power. As I forced quit programs, new ones would launch themselves. I tried to shut down the phone, but I couldn't slide the red ribbon sideways to shut the phone down. Eventually I did. When I rebooted, I couldn't enter my PIN because I would press one button, and another one would depress on the screen. Prees 0 and 4 would be entered.
I brought it in to Apple and a genius made me reset to the original OS with no non-start-up apps. I did, and the behavior returned. I brought it back and they thought that the touch screen was defective. They swapped the phone.
I just uploaded all my apps to the new phone, and a day later I'm watching a podcast in Safari and suddenly the podcast stops and I see typing in the Safari URL entry window. I see apps opening and I see random typing in random apps. Again, the phone is plugged into AC power.
This is a second phone. I just deleted non-Apple apps and we'll see what happens. So if no viruses exist, and this is only a oftware bug, one program can open another and start typing.
Has anyone heard of this behavior?
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Dec 14, 2013 2:49 PM in response to SuperNMYby Funem,Dont believe everything you are told. You CAN get a virus on a non jailbroken iOS device its already been proven at a Security Symposium, listen here if you need proof
https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity13/technical-sessions/paper/wang _tielei
An app that was a test virus was uploaded and passed to the iOS app store. This explains how it was done.
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Dec 14, 2013 3:39 PM in response to Funemby Lawrence Finch,And it was also caught and deleted almost immediately. So we shouldn't believe everything we are told, but it's OK for you to?
And this has nothing to do with the OP's problem, which is not related to a virus.
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Dec 14, 2013 3:44 PM in response to SuperNMYby PhilipRoy,Please try going to: Settings>General>Reset>Reset all settings
Please respond after trying this.
good luck
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Dec 14, 2013 4:02 PM in response to Lawrence Finchby Funem,I followed this, it wasnt caught and deleted immediately, there was nothing to trace it. The originators of the app notifed Apple and explained the app and there findings, it was then removed. Listen to the whole broadcast they even said it in there. Some of the vunerabilities they uncovered are still there in iOS7, some are locked down.
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Dec 14, 2013 4:03 PM in response to Funemby Lawrence Finch,So you believe everything you see on the Internet. Most interesting.
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Dec 14, 2013 4:03 PM in response to SuperNMYby Noodles Brainguy,There are no viruses for iOS
You could download iOS from the app store and install all over again
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Dec 14, 2013 4:13 PM in response to Lawrence Finchby Funem,No, I believe findings published by an organisation sponsored by IBM, Microsoft, Facebook, NSF and Google to name a few. They are also industry partners to many large tech firms and have members are from major universities around the globe (click the link provided and then scroll down to the bottom). The findings were broadcast on the web, they didnt originate there. Interesting indeed.
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Dec 14, 2013 5:57 PM in response to Funemby thomas_r.,Jekyll is old news. It was not a virus, it was simply an approved app that changed behavior. Note that this app was still sandboxed, as are all App Store apps, so it couldn't do any of the things ascribed to the mythical "iPhone virus" mentioned in topics like this one. It could only access personal information within the framework of the iPhone's security, requiring permission from the user first. Once you have granted an app access to your information, of course, that app can transmit it somewhere. There's not much Apple can do to prevent that without crippling all apps.
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Jan 15, 2014 8:59 PM in response to SuperNMYby Helfrid,Two times this week, once when using instaweather and once when visiting a familymembers blogg I got the message that I had won a lot of money if i only would....something, something.... Isn't that a virus? As I said, I've only seen it twice but......
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Jan 15, 2014 11:52 PM in response to Helfridby hexonxonx,No, that is not a virus. It is simply an ad.
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Jan 30, 2014 5:30 AM in response to SuperNMYby XP45,I am currently having issues with a.tribalfusion.com which opens up another page with an ad to click to lower my life insurance. I'm relieved that its not a virus as everyone claims viruses don't exist for the iphone but it is spyware so how do I get rid of it? It started all of a sudden a week ago. When I search on the web I get all kinds of help for a desktop computer but nothing for an iphone. Yes, I've erased all cookies, yes I've erased all data and restored from an old backup from a year ago and yes it still comes up. So since spyware does exist for the iphone, how do I get rid of it?