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iPhone Calendar Virus

Last week I went onto a movie site and I clicked the wrong thing and somehow ended up with this (photo attached) in my calendar. I know if I click on the link I’m probably doomed so I haven’t. there is no option for me to delete these events or edit the calendar subscriptions to them like you can with any other event or calendar. They’re just stuck there it seems and they pop up every day and won’t stop. I can’t mute the Event reminders and because it remakes or adds them in two day increments. I’ve looked Online for hours and nothing seems to help because it doesn’t let me delete anything. I don’t think it’s spam like most posts say to people because I cannot remove anything. Help



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Posted on Mar 7, 2020 8:03 PM

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Posted on Apr 19, 2021 12:22 PM

What if you’ve done everything in the help articles, there are no unknown calendars to delete, there are no unknown calendars subscribed to, and you are still getting garbage events appearing in your calendar, and no way to delete them.

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Apr 30, 2021 4:16 PM in response to jewels256

I got a popup from calendars today and it said i have a virus and that i need to fix it. And i have a solution DONT CLICK ON IT go into your device settings go down to calendar and click on accounts and delete the second account and those popups will go away the popup is a way for hackers to access your personal information you don’t have a virus your safe

May 5, 2021 7:05 AM in response to jewels256

Hi There I had this annoying thing too, wasn’t in any of the calendar apps - i followed instructions from here, turns out it was in Reminders (i have iPhone 7 so old instructions sorry) but basically Settings - reminders - accounts - the hideous thing was lurking there - managed to delete it. Good luck. I got mine when typing in an IP address, and yes did I was doing it in hurry and boom suddenly its on my calendar, more care next time!!

May 5, 2021 7:42 PM in response to blainek17

This article is actually really helpful I was worried it would be a hyper link to a scam website but it was in fact an official link to apple’s website about this issue. When I first started getting these(about an hour ago) I thought it might be from cookies so I deleted all my history. When that didn’t help I deleted all the apps I downloaded recently. Then I looked through my accounts and passwords and deleted one that seemed odd and unfamiliar 👆as the previous person said to do👆 Then when that didn’t work I tried this - I had deleted the calendar app thinking that would help btw- so then I looked through my calendars and they seems normal accept for one and what was strange was that I actually had an option to delete it and it had strange font at the top. So if you’re ever having this issue look through your calendars and if one of them has a strange font you should probably delete it. Thanks luvs <3

May 21, 2021 5:56 AM in response to Axel Foley

Hi Axel, same thing happened with my phone recently, However I accidentally clicked the link trying to delete it and it took me to another page, however once this page opened I closed it down straight away and did a factory reset, is there anything else I should do and is clicking the link bad or is it only bad if you download the stuff they are telling you to.

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Jun 5, 2021 11:59 AM in response to jewels256

You may have accepted a new calendar that fills your calendar up with cascading events that ask you to click on a link. Obviously, do not click on that link. (You may also find that trying to delete individual events only causes many more events to appear on your calendar.) In the Ical app, click on "Calendars" at the bottom of the screen. Scroll until you find the Trojan horse calendar -- It may be in the "subscribed" section and it might have the same name as the button you clicked on by accident. Delete that calendar and the offending messages should go away.

Jun 26, 2021 6:40 PM in response to yasaa48

yasaa48 wrote:

I was trying to ask if anything bad were to happen if I clicked on the link on the calendar?


You did inform the scammers that you are willing to engage with them, which usually means you’re worth to them, and which means you will probably receive more efforts to spam and to scam, if they’ve been able to track your identity.

Jul 1, 2021 10:02 AM in response to sheree296

sheree296 wrote:

I am also having problems with my calendar on my IPad. Not an iPhone but an IPad. Can someone please help me? It now says it’s going to lock my iPhone soon. Still, like I said, I have an IPad. Please instruct me how to get rid of this. Thank you very much in advance!


No, you’re not going to get locked out. (They lied.) No, there is not a hacker. (They lied.)


There is nothing wrong with your iPad. Somewhere in your web travels, you were offered and have accepted an utterly mundane calendar subscription (“would you like to be notified?” or some such), and that calendar subscription is filled with advertising. With spam. The advertisers deliberately use words —and lies—intended to strike fear, and panic, and to get the reader to do what the advertiser wants.


Fix? Unsubscribe from the subscribed calendar. (The following assumes recent or current iPadOS…)


With the iPad in portrait, tap the calendar page in the extreme upper left, scroll down the list of calendars to the subscribed calendars—the dolor of the calendar will match the color of the advertisements you’re seeing—and tap the information ℹ️ , scroll down, and select delete.



Jul 2, 2021 3:42 PM in response to Psycho-Chan

Psycho-Chan wrote:

Wait I found a way to fix it never mind!


And for those that might find just this and wonder, select Subscribed Calendars, find the rogue calendar, and delete it. It can be easier to go after this subscribed calendar spam from the Calendars app list of subscribed calendars (on iOS 13 and later), but whatever works, works.

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