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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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Axel Foley

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Posted on Aug 29, 2021 3:12 PM

I am updating the resolution again since the initial response was over a year and a half ago and things have change with the newer iOS version(s).

That is a Rogue Calendar account.

If you are using iOS 13 then 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.

If you are using iOS 14 then Go to Settings ➔ Calendar ➔ 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.

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Axel Foley

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May 21, 2021 11:24 AM in response to huw130

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.

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Jun 18, 2021 7:37 PM in response to alesa257

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.

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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 8:06 AM in response to jewels256

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!

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Jul 5, 2021 8:26 AM in response to Chaneld91

Chaneld91 wrote:

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

That’s a separate question, and it means that one or more of your passwords has been found in a breach. Whether that is a common password (bad), or is a re-used password (very bad)?

Apple provides details on iPhone and iPad here > Settings > Passwords > Security Recommendations.

Passwords are best when unique and robust. Re-used passwords—even robust passwords—go from great to horrible, just as soon as one of the services where that password is re-used is breached. And lots of services have gotten breached, and more services are getting breached, with more passwords and more password pairs getting exposed with each.

If you want to expose your email (already widely known for most of us), see haveibeenpwned for a summary of the breaches you’ve been caught up in: https://haveibeenpwned.com/

Jul 16, 2021 9:52 PM in response to jewels256

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

When I go to Settings->Calendar, my screen freezes. As long as I don’t try to launch calendar, all other setting options work.

I’ll contact support tomorrow.

Has any of these spam companies been sued in a California small claims court? I feel like I’m owed $5K for this PITA spam.

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Jan 31, 2022 10:09 PM in response to Axel Foley

Genius bro thank you so much didn’t know the solution so I deleted calendar and turned off my calendar notification but after restarting my iPhone it starts to send me notifications and spam links but now no issues as u mentioned it’s from certain websites which I visited which had this pop up ****

Axel Foley

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Mar 7, 2020 8:38 PM in response to jewels256

You are welcome!

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Apr 14, 2021 12:00 PM in response to Axel Foley

Thank you so much sir. I will be careful in future. A year later and your answer is still helping others. 👍

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Apr 14, 2021 7:20 PM in response to AceDada

Dada, you are welcome.

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Apr 15, 2021 11:18 AM in response to Axel Foley

Thank you so much! This solved my problem today too!

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Apr 15, 2021 6:38 PM in response to LiamDAxel

You are welcome.

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Apr 19, 2021 11:29 AM in response to Axel Foley

I’m my setting there isn’t passwords and accounts.

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Apr 22, 2021 8:05 PM in response to TheManNam

You are welcome.

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Apr 24, 2021 8:51 PM in response to Zerocool6687

Glad it all worked out for you in the end.

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