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I have an Ipad 2. I discovered it has an e-mail virus. It is sending Spam to all my e-mail contacts. My desktop IMac is not yet infected. Any ideas on how I can get rid of the virus on my Ipad - I can't find anything in the App Store to clean it up. I have Charter Anti-virus on my IMac but it won't scan my Ipad. Thankyou!
iPad 2, iOS 5.0.1
There are no viruses that affect iOS devices, so your iPad cannot have an e-mail virus and it cannot be sending spam to all your contacts.
As there are no viruses that can affect the iPad, there are no virus checkers that can check one. That's why you can't find any virus checkers in the AppStore.
Whatever is sending spam to your contacts, is not your iPad.
I have a virus on my iPad. I downloaded 2 apps yesterday from istore. I can't remember what they were since I Immediately deleted them when the problem occurred. One was a cut and paste photo editor, the other was a YouTube video manager. Now Google and Safari are being redirected to **** sites constantly. Can someone please help urgently. My iPad has never been jail broken and I would hate to have to reset it to factory settings and lose all my work. I have done a general reset from the setting menu and turned the ipad off and on again, this did not work.
malware are not multi platform so malware made for windows does not work on macs and malware made for desktop platforms does not work on any type of mobile devices
well someone needs to tell my ipad that it cant be infected, because now i am usuing my fiends laptop to access these forums to try and get some ugent help. it looks loke a virus to me!
Well how can 2 differnt apps be doing the same. the google app searches and then when i click a link it goes to the ron site site site, Also in safari opened separately it goes to the same site. misspelled because this isforum wont accept the pron word (the word for sitess illegal to access)
i have used my iphone to video what is happening.sorry its poor quality and wont upload here...why?
Unless you jailbreak your ipad-you can not get a virus on it.
AV software can not work on an iPad due to sandboxing.
Sandboxing prevents apps from accessing data or services from other apps or making systemwide changes.
this is one of the reasons there are no viruses on iOs devices.
Another is you can only download apps from the Apple appstore, which are all scanned for male are before they are approved.
How are you accessing the Internet?
http://www.thesafemac.com/how-to-manage-a-hacked-wireless-router/
Ipad virus scanning.
