Virus in subscribed calendar

So today I was browsing a website and accidentally clicked on an advertisement that created a pop up about creating an event on my calendar and I accidentally accepted it. Now it becomes a subscribed calendar which has links that direct to suspicious websites. I manage to delete it but I’m worried that it may have virus that will affect my phone. Can I know if such issues will install a virus on my phone. Thks

iPhone 6s

Posted on Jan 9, 2020 7:25 AM

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Posted on Feb 8, 2020 9:17 AM

That is a Rogue Calendar account. Go to Settings-->>Passwords & Accounts and under Accounts see if an unknown calendar account is listed. If it is then tap on it and then Delete account.


Note that it is not a virus. It is something that got added to your calendar because you may have accepted an offer from a pop-up  on a website unknowingly. Please be careful out there,


Good Luck.


Axel F

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Feb 8, 2020 9:17 AM in response to NeedHelpPlox

That is a Rogue Calendar account. Go to Settings-->>Passwords & Accounts and under Accounts see if an unknown calendar account is listed. If it is then tap on it and then Delete account.


Note that it is not a virus. It is something that got added to your calendar because you may have accepted an offer from a pop-up  on a website unknowingly. Please be careful out there,


Good Luck.


Axel F

Feb 22, 2020 8:22 AM in response to iamvickyh

No, there is no virus on your iPhone. You were a victim of phishing or a scam. These scammers are either after your Apple ID and Password or they want you to subscribe to something that you did not intend to. The idea behind both of the above is to steal money from you, as you already know.

You do not have to worry about a virus (Unless your iPhone is Jailbroken) however I recommend that you change the password to your Apple ID as shown HERE. This is just to be double safe.


Axel F.

Jan 20, 2020 10:36 AM in response to milena231

If you go to Calendars at the bottom of the screen there, do you see a calendar listed that matches the color of these events? If you see a strange calendar there under Other or Subscribed, can you uncheck it? Then you may want to check, it seems they get will add a strange mail account. Go to Settings>Passwords & Accounts and see if you find a strange email account there. It may be where the calendar syncing is coming from. Delete the account from there. You will also want to check Settings>General>Profiles, and see if there is anything unusual listed there.


Jul 24, 2020 12:47 AM in response to NeedHelpPlox

same here and then my phone started lagging. I posted on my instagram that i was so hyped to watch kissing booth 2 at 3am sharp and my posts were lagging but also fast at times and at 3am sharp i open netflix on my phone and it says the network connection isn't working but everyone in my household's devices are working especially my computer. Now i am stuck watching Netflix on my computer.


ALso i followed the comment section and removed the account from my passwords and account and my phone was acting like the above.


normally my journals save on this app but ever since the situation it hasn't been saving and it says that they cant sync my journals on the app

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