iPhone Calendar Virus

Thank u !!! Happened to me yesterday same cause and I got out today quick after deleting the subscribed calendar account.

question when your phone tells you the info was in a data leak what does that mean?

Even before finding this thread, I tried all the suggestions. There were multiple videos available for suggestions for the different versions of iOS, but McAffe’s YouTube video posted in May was the cleanest. I have 14.6.

I guess you missed my sentence that my “system froze” after going to System->Calendar. I could never get to Accounts, which was the McAffe suggestion.

The freezing part is the piece that I’m sharing with the community that others haven’t mention. I honestly don’t care what it is, but I wanted it gone.

What I did after writing my original comment was delete the Calendar app and reinstall. From there, I was able to remove the objectionable calendar from the Calendar app and not Systems -> Calendar -> Account since it wasn’t present. Another YouTube video I saw said removing the spammy calendar from Calendar app isn’t the solution. I’m hoping it’s gone for good. Maybe I ran into a different version of whatever it is?

I guess if it returns, I’ll return to factory settings.

I did this and deleted the accounts in setting I think it worked. How do I avoid it for future

kimberlyfromrossmoor wrote:

I suspect this is a little more virus-y than first thought.

I suspect there was a spam-filled calendar offered by some website, and accepted. Which isn’t even malware.

As for the freeze, I’d restart the iPhone,

… Restart your iPhone - Apple Support

and then try the following:

Dude you are the ****!!! Man that was tripping me out for the last 3 weeks been trying to find like an app cleaner or something! Huge help bro! Wicked advice!

just remember to tell people it’s under settings——mail—-accounts at least mine is for my iPhone x

Thank you so much for this. It happened to me today. I’m always so careful, but somehow this one caught me out. Simply removing the rogue calendar has solved the problem.

M_Anderson72 wrote:

I deleted the unwanted calendar but it keeps adding it self back repeatedly. Any further advice?

So to confirm, you viewed the subscribed calendar section of the (iPhone? iPad? Mac?) and found and deleted the subscription there, and the subscribed calendar is now somehow getting re-added? Which iOS or iPadOS or macOS version?

When I go to Settings- passwords there is nothing listed as accounts

I got a calendar alert that a virus is on my phone

any thoughts?

Can you or she post a screen shot so that we know what she is looking at? Thanks.

Axel F.

Calendar virus

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

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.

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

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