My iphone 7 says it has a virus
My iPhone said it had 16 viruses found what should I do?
iPhone 7, iOS 15
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FerrariEnzo7979 wrote:
My iPhone said it had 16 viruses found what should I do?
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Websites and advertisements cannot scan your iPhone.
All such messages are scams.
If websites could scan your iPhone, they’d just steal all your data directly without resorting to subterfuge, as malware scans are deeply intrusive.
Installed apps can’t scan your iPhone, either.
The build-in malware scanner and built-in malware removal provided by Apple works fine too, and you don’t need the app that pop-up is probably advertising.
In recent times, those pop-up “you have (3) viruses!” and similar ads have often been for add-on security apps that badly solve a problem that hasn’t existed for a decade or so too, but badly solve it in a way that is perfect for collecting personally-identified metadata. (Which apps? Add-on widely-hyped first-few-hops commercial VPNs, as differentiated from the end-to-end VPNs used to connect into the internal networks of affiliated organizations.)
Anything you might read that references “hacker” or “virus” should be considered entertainment, an advertisement, or a scam, until proven otherwise, too.
