How do i get rid of a iPhone Virus?

I followed this, it wasnt caught and deleted immediately, there was nothing to trace it. The originators of the app notifed Apple and explained the app and there findings, it was then removed. Listen to the whole broadcast they even said it in there. Some of the vunerabilities they uncovered are still there in iOS7, some are locked down.

So you believe everything you see on the Internet. Most interesting.

There are no viruses for iOS

You could download iOS from the app store and install all over again

No, I believe findings published by an organisation sponsored by IBM, Microsoft, Facebook, NSF and Google to name a few. They are also industry partners to many large tech firms and have members are from major universities around the globe (click the link provided and then scroll down to the bottom). The findings were broadcast on the web, they didnt originate there. Interesting indeed.

Jekyll is old news. It was not a virus, it was simply an approved app that changed behavior. Note that this app was still sandboxed, as are all App Store apps, so it couldn't do any of the things ascribed to the mythical "iPhone virus" mentioned in topics like this one. It could only access personal information within the framework of the iPhone's security, requiring permission from the user first. Once you have granted an app access to your information, of course, that app can transmit it somewhere. There's not much Apple can do to prevent that without crippling all apps.

Two times this week, once when using instaweather and once when visiting a familymembers blogg I got the message that I had won a lot of money if i only would....something, something.... Isn't that a virus? As I said, I've only seen it twice but......

No, that is not a virus. It is simply an ad.

I am currently having issues with a.tribalfusion.com which opens up another page with an ad to click to lower my life insurance. I'm relieved that its not a virus as everyone claims viruses don't exist for the iphone but it is spyware so how do I get rid of it? It started all of a sudden a week ago. When I search on the web I get all kinds of help for a desktop computer but nothing for an iphone. Yes, I've erased all cookies, yes I've erased all data and restored from an old backup from a year ago and yes it still comes up. So since spyware does exist for the iphone, how do I get rid of it?

The only solution is to not use the website if you don't like the links it hosts. Or contact the webmaster and complain. You can go to Settings/Safari and turn on Block Popups. That will stop some of them. But any site that does this is not to be trusted.

I did contact the webmaster already. It is not a link they host and no one else has had this issue. I did turn on Block Popups already. And frequent delete cookies and data.

I have done all this. What I need is information on how to remove this spyware from my iPhone.

It isn't spyware on your iPhone unless you, or someone else, has jailbroken your iPhone. It is possible that your router has been hijacked.

You can follow the suggestions given here about resetting, restoring, etc. but there is no software available that removes spyware from a phone as there is no spyware to remove. If you suspect your iPhone has been jailbroken by someone else you can put it in DFU mode and Restore it as a new iPhone. This will remove everything from the iPhone.

OK, if it's not spyware then what is it? When I search for a.tribalfusion.com I get all kind of info about it being a nasty bit of spyware that is very hard to detect and very hard to get rid of. This phone has never been jailbroken. I appreciate all the virus/spyware denials but it's not helping.

It is a very old spyware application that ran on older versions of Windows.

If you are running a version of Windows XP or Windows Vista on your iPhone you should be concerned.

I'm still unclear on what you're seeing. If you're being redirected to a.tribalfusion.com when browsing a particular site, that site is doing it. Either it's a bad site or it has been hacked somehow.

If it's happening frequently, across a broad range of sites, including big-name sites that don't use advertising or redirects (like Apple.com, for example), then the issue is likely to be a problem with your network... perhaps a compromised router, perhaps DNS poisoning, perhaps something else.

See:

Eliminating browser redirects and advertisements

(Note that the information at that link was written with the Mac in mind, but most of the info is still applicable to the iPad or iPhone.)

Currently I have seen it with one site, but it happens so infrequently that it's hard to pin down. (Like once every other day.) Info I found previously said it was activated by certain sites that used the same kind of cookies (although it seems to happen more frequently right after I've deleted all cookies). So if it is the site, and not my phone, how is it that I'm the only one that has complained about it? The site in question is avsforum.com which is an A/V forum site, and is not some shady operation. I had been using this site for months with no issues, then about a week ago I started getting the redirects.

It is not my router as it happens both on wifi and AT&T cellular.

Is there any way I or Genius Bar could search what is on my phone to make sure there's nothing there? I don't see any way to even look at what cookies are on the iPhone.