How do i get rid of a iPhone Virus?

You were the one who brought up the political scope. Allan Eckert has it correct, there is nothing new regarding the iPhone and I do keep up and do my own research.

deggie wrote:

Snowden never said they could remotely install software onto an iPhone

Actually, Snowden said exactly that in his recent TV interview. The statement drew much laughter, ridicule and scorn from the security community, who all knew that this was not a statement backed up by any of the documents he stole, nor is it possible by any means they are aware of.

Perhaps Snowden's meaning in that interview was misunderstood, or perhaps he simply doesn't understand crap about the stuff he has revealed, or maybe he's just crazy. I don't know. What I do know is that that particular statement, as I understood it, was blatantly false.

Yes my concerns do hinge on Apple's cooperation (whether voluntarily or not).

The kicker here is that - Would apple be prevented from reporting any such cooperation by a gag order?

We all know that happens - most of the big players including Apple, Microsoft and Google have all admitted similar gagging orders.

So what.

the NSA has only one reason to snoop: it finds a pattern of suspicious activity.

I Have no problem with what the NSA or Snowden did.

I am baffled that anyone was surprised at the scope of the NSA snooping.

Equally baffling, is the NSA's assertion that Snowden leaked information we didn't already at least suspect.

if the end result is the prevention of another 9/11, more power to them.

Meanwhile, I hope they enjoy my Facebook page.

The NSA may be reading this, but I'm not. Unsubscribing ...

Would apple be prevented from reporting any such cooperation by a gag order?

Now you're talking about something completely different. You're no longer talking about malware on an iPhone. Thus, this is probably not the right place for such a discussion.

However, I will point out that Apple is one of the only big companies out there to issue a "warrant canary" that would allow the public to determine whether they were being forced to operate under a gag order without them actually breaking the gag order by saying so. Pretty clever of Apple, I must say! See:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/apples-first-transparency-report-gets-warr ant-canaries-right

Actually this thread is really disappointing for me. I found this discussion searching for a cure for what I thought to be a iphone virus that was causing my iphone to execute programs, like flashlight and others, and run my battery down and then fail to charge. Apparently no such virus exists so that must not be the problem. Thats really bad news! That must mean this cheap chinese piece of junk hardware must have sucked up another inextractable shirt pocket lint ball into the charging port and I am out another $300!!!

Lint in the charging port might stop the phone from charging, but not do anything like you describe. It's more likely to be this:

Unauthorized modification of iOS can cause security vulnerabilities, instability, shortened battery life, and other issu…

I am also seeing this Issue on my Ipad ... again it's not jailbreaked. Already tried clearing Safari browser history which is of no help.

In case you have already resolved this problem, let me know how this got resolved?

Thanks

Deepak

Posting at the bottom of a thread that has been dead for nearly a year is certainly not the best way to get your question noticed. You really should start your own thread for your problem.

I am currently experiencing issues with my iphone that I thought was a virus. However, after reading some of these comments I'm not so sure anymore. The issues I am having are as follows. My phone, ONLY when I am at work, opens up apps, my messages, siri you name it. It has also deleted messages right in front of my eyes. All thishappened while I was looking at it and not touching my phone at all. If I am using it, sometimes it even kicks me out of what I'm doing and does its own this. It has gone into my pictures while I'm in the middle of a text message and sent pictures from my album without me doing anything. Or in Facebook (while using it) has shared things, liked things, deleted friends added new people I don't know. My phone is not jailbroken. So I'm wondering if it could be the wifi at my work? Now people have mentioned restoring my phone to factory settings. If I do this though, will I lose everything on my phone? Because apparently I cannot back it up now that it's doing this or else I end up just putting the problem back on again. I have very important information on my phone that I need to stay on here. So if I restore it how do I keep everything except the problem on my phone?

If you have not done so restore your iPhone from your backup first and see if that helps.

It's not very helpful to say there's no virus on an iphone. This person obviously has a problem, call it a virus or just call it a problem. Whatever it is, it needs fixing.

In case it's useful here's an experience I had. When accessing professional film critics from the app IMDB, I kept getting very annoying pop-ups that essentally blocked my iphone (telling me I had won an iPhone 7!!!!) I did a reinstall of IMDB but the problem persisted. I then did a complete reboot of the iphone and the problem disappeared. Whether it was a virus or not is not an issue. It was the work of a crook who didn't mind screwing up other people's hardware. I get the impression that Safari is a shaky piece of software as I have had other problems with it.

The mention of a phone doing "magic things" suggests a loose connection that is triggering random events!

I would suggest (1) deleting the offending app and then reinstalling it. If that doesn't work then try (2) doing a full reboot of your hardware. After that a full restore might be in order and if that fails then get Apple involved. Good luck. At least such experiences are rare in the worlds of Apple and Android.

No, calling it a virus when there isn't one is very unhelpful. There are many posts in this thread that are very helpful.

It's not very helpful to respond to a post 2¼ years old with suggestions that have already been made several times in the thread.