iPhone Calendar Virus

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

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!!

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

The same thing is happening for me I haven’t done anything for three months now it’s telling me you received a gift or you receive the new iPhone 12 and some other stuff that is kind of weird instead of you have a virus it used to be you have a virus but now it’s this

I am assuming you all tried the original suggestion of goings to settings and accounts to check that a rogue calendar hasn’t been installed. That worked perfectly for me, I just deleted the rogue calendar.

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.

Thanks

Clicking the link is not going to harm anything. You did not download or accept a calendar / etc. so you are good to go. A factory reset was probably unnecessary however, since you have done that, you are completely safe. You are fine.

Axel F.

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.

I just tried this and it worked!

Removing this is simple, so open Settings and select Calendar > Accounts then look for the Subscribed Calendars option. Tap that, find any calendars that you don't want, then select it and tap the Delete Account option.

Jun 1, 2021

Alesa, in the future be aware of what you are clicking on. Read the popup windows where you do not accidentally accept a calendar to be installed on your system by a website. Just be careful out there.

Axel F.

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.

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!

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.

I had the same problem recently and came across this discussion during my search for a solution. I have deleted the spam account simply. Go to “Settings”, then click “Calendar” then click “Accounts”. You will find the strange account that does not belong to you, simply delete it.

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.