Possible virus iphone 4S

There are no known viruses on the iOS system devices...has to be another problem going on.

Unless your phone is jailbroken it is not a virus. If it is jailbroken you can't get help in an Apple forum.

The troubleshooting first step is to Reset - hold HOME and SLEEP until an Apple logo appears (10-20 seconds).

If that doesn't resolve the problem connect to iTunes and Restore the phone.

Since the iPhone is merely a tool which is used to access an email account, if you log into the email account on another device, say a computer, do the same strange emails appear? If so, it's an issue with the email account, not the iPhone.

Delete and recreate the account on the iPhone... the issue should go away.

It's not a virus but a known bug with threaded email view. Go into mail settings and turn it off.

I so I have an issue where I have had my email for 11 years never had malware. Now I have the new iPhone 4s it's the only way I check and send emails now is from the iPhone period since release day of the 4s and now today I received. Notification that I sent a spam email to every contact I have. Containing a link and a note about financial wellness or some bs that I didn't send. So if iPhone is unable to get a virus then please explain how this occurred. My iPhone is not jailbroken and I have only downloaded a few apps both free and paid for from the app store. Please help.

It's very simply... the iPhone is not the issue... your email account has been compromised.

That sounds a lot like a copout, aka passing the buck considering that I use a 15 digit alpha numaric password. I used to work for a computer IT department I'm not a tool that opens spam or clicks on links that are not from a verified source without confirmation of authenticity. To hack my pw would take a little to much effort for just spam. So to say my email has been compromised is a little far fetched. But I can see how admitting that someone has achieved the impossible as implied by making a virus to attack the iOS could be a little hard for apple to swallow.

You do realize this is a user to user support forum and we are not Apple employees, correct?

Stop getting so freaking defensive... no one here has any way of knowing (or caring) how anal-retentive you are about your passwords.

LOL I was commenting on how quick YOU were to dismis the fact that it is indeed possible for someone to make a virus for the iOS. But instead like CSR agents that do work for apple you just pass the buck because you have been brainwashed by apple to think its a flawless iOS. Which it's not and with new tech comes new issues as well as leaving something's unattended as getting lax on security. But I see you wouldn't understand that. You would rather make comments about people bein anal about passwords. Which does nobody any good I came on here to find a solution to an issue. And all I got was you tryin to pass the buck on my email provider. So if you are just an end user and have nothing of importance to add then maybe you should keep your comments to yourself.

It is highly unlikely that your iPhone is infected with malware. First, there have been no documented cases of malware affecting non-jailbroken phones. If there were indeed malware for the phone how was your phone infected? Virtually all malware on any platform requires an action on the part of the user, and you with your experience would be the last one to fall for anything that basic. Yours would also not be the only iPhone infected, and there are no other docuemented cases of the problem you describe. The most likely scenario is that your email account was compromised. As you've only had the iPhone for a few months you were sending and receiving email for 11 years from some other device. That device presumably has your address book on it, and, unless you deleted your email account from that computer when you got the iPhone the account is still on it, so any malware that infected that computer could take over your computer even if you personally no longer use it for email.

Do you use your iPhone on public WiFi hotspots? There's plenty of sniffer software around that can capture anything sent over a public WiFi network, so unless you use SSL or TLS for all of your sending and receiving that's another place your account could be compromised.

I'm not saying it's impossible that your iPhone is infected with some as yet undiscovered malware, but it is the least likely scenario.