I need a virus scan that is free, Google sent a text to my phone saying I had 39 viruses on my iPhone SE

slopez_05 wrote:

same i was like what??? what do I ACTUALLY do

still don’t know what to do i’m confused

What to do?

DELETE THIS SCAM MESSAGE,

Then READ THIS: Recognize and avoid phishing messages, phony support calls, and other scams - Apple Support

Longer answer:

Delete this junk.

The scammers are trying to hack you, and to hack your trust, and in this case to hack your fears.

You fear malware. Fear is a powerful motivator.

Fear will get us to perform all softs of bad and self-defeating things.

Again, they’re not trying to hack your devices, they’re trying to get you to hack your devices for them.

Most folks are hacked not with sophisticated hacks, but by giving up their passwords, their access, and by installing junk apps.

For cases such as this, most folks get hacked by looking for free and easy solutions to non-issues.

Close Safari

Then Settings, Safari, Clear history snd website data to remove the cookie

Unless you jailbroke the phone you do NOT have a virus. There are none.

If you did jailbreak it then look up how to restore it.

Always get apps from App Store.

It is a scam

Don't respond to any demands

Don't click on any links

Don't install anything

Delete your Safari website data

If your phone is jailbroken get it restored

Webstertimothy497 wrote:

Can you help

Your iPhone is infected with one million viruses. ONE MILLION VIRUSES. You must send me all of your money. All of it. Once you send me all of your money, you will receive a special app that will remove exactly one million viruses. Exactly ONE MILLION VIRUSES will be removed. Then you must send me more money every month, or I will send you a new mail message telling you that you will have ONE BILLION VIRUSES. Then you’ll need extra-special software app to remove the ONE BILLION VIRUSES. Oh, wait, my bad, you have ONE TRILLION VIRUSES, and need the double-secret app to remove that, and the double-secret app costs extra.

The above is only a slight exaggeration around what is happening here.

In short...

You’re getting lied to.

Remote folks cannot run a virus scan.

If the folks could remotely scan your iPhone, they’d just upload all of your data and be done with it.

Read and understand this:

Recognize and avoid phishing messages, phony support calls, and other scams - Apple Support

Omega3637 wrote:

I am scared plz help I am 13 and on my phone it said I hade 39 viruses from Adult websites is it a scam from

Safari

You yourself are getting hacked. You. Not your iPhone. You. You are well along to getting scammed.

Recognize and avoid phishing messages, phony support calls, and other scams - Apple Support

If a website could theoretically access deep enough into your iPhone or iPad to run a malware scan—access well past what installed iPhone apps are permitted, BTW—it’d be feasible for scammers to just upload all of your entire device contents, or quite possibly worse. Websites just can’t make arbitrary access into your device. Not without a serious breach of iOS or iPadOS security.

Yes, there is iPhone and iPad malware. It’s quite rare, though. Various of that malware is based on or similar to the aforementioned jailbreaks, too. Avoid those.

People call you pretending to be from Apple. That is no reassurance, quite the opposite.

There are no iphone viruses.

Also note that “Google” did not send you the message, instead it was from some bogus website.

No it doesn’t. Read the thread.

Hi so my iPhone7 has been infected by 3 viruses and I need help to check my iPhone if it is infected or not

Here are the screenshots

I am scared plz help I am 13 and on my phone it said I hade 39 viruses from Adult websites is it a scam from

Safari

iPhone as a virus

That is a SCAM!

But it said Apple.com

same i was like what??? what do I ACTUALLY do

still don’t know what to do i’m confused.