How do i get rid of a iPhone Virus?

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.

hello,

i came to this post because i had same problems on my device as well and i am extremely disappointed of the community here,

this guys already said his device was NOT jailbroken and he just wanted a solution but all he got was"There are no viruses on iPhone" and this is the most unhelpful thing to say. the world of computers and programming is very very wide and it is impossible for anything to be safe there, i mean come on, Apple is not the security god. THERE ARE VIRUS AND MALWARE ON IPHONE, just google "YiSpecter". YiSpecter is the first ever iPhone VIRUS and surprise surprise it DOES affect NON-JAILBROKEN devices as well.

theses viruses can even exist in the app store apps as well. as you can see in this article: http://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2015/10/yispecter-first-ios-malware-a ttacks-non-jailbroken-ios-devices-by-abusing-private-apis/

"Moreover, recent research shows that over 100 apps in the App Store have abused private APIs and bypassed Apple’s strict code review. What that means is the attacking technique of abusing private APIs can also be used separately and can affect all normal iOS users who only download apps from the App Store."

so now you see that anything is possible and don't think that apple is a god of security just cause it sais so and try not to limit your thoughts.

if there is a first there WILL be seconds so there will be future ios malware as well, be sure of that.

and BTW, anything is possible:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2842778/Hackers-use-radio-signals -steal-private-information-PCs-computers…

FIrst off, this thread is old.

2nd There is no iPhone virus's, so stop sourcing news articles that thrive off of posting rumors. Enoughs enough.

3rd, the problem with the iPhone based on its behavior with it pressing things on its own is a hardware issue, caused by a piece called the localizer, its built into the display and when it goes bad it can provide false touches. no @ posters saying its someone controlling it with remote access.

False touches CANNOT be fixed by restoring the device, unless you are misinterpretting false touches for extremely laging behind touches which all catch up at once after a few minutes in quick succession, that one, is software.

4th If youre not JB, youre not getting viruses, period.

5th the web page redirects ARE coming from the website youre visiting, yes they are ads, yes they are java based, its not a virus, so stop the antics.

If you contacted the web owners and they said no theyre lying, period. Enough. If you want proof these are coming from a java based ad, then goto settings, safari, advanced, disable java, and go back to your website. Youll no longer get them.

6, last possibility for pop ups is if youre not using a personal router and internet line, so public networks or a hotel, etc, can and will inject urls into youre device, this is also true for pcs, this also is not a virus, they use the same function for when youre required to enter a code or password to join their network but via a website instead of the network itself being pw protected.

6 pages of nonsense is posted here. Stop it. People have already told you its not possible to get them, just because no one explained why whats happening you keep egging it on? Find something else better to do with your time, its now been explained.

As Unreal says if your iPhone is not jailbroken, it does not have a virus.

Instead of posting at the bottom of a long dead thread, you really should start your own thread for your problem.

In addition, stick what your own problem is and forget about all of the other stuff you are finding on the web.

Yesterday I opened up my gmail account and had several returned emails. Strange because I had not sent them. Immediately changed my passwords and other security in Google. I use very strong passwords so I was a little surprised that I had been hacked. I opened one of these emails from my IPhone 4s and clicked a link then closed it. I notified friends on FB not to open the email from me (I have way too many gmail contacts). Today I opened Safari and on at least every other webpage in greeted with an ad "You've won a prize!" And when you read fine print they are phishing for CC info. I'm going to do a reset on my phone, but this guys claim about an email being sent with "awkward" is VERY similar to the emails sent from my gmail account. I have no idea how or if my IPhone is part of this mess but wanted to get opinions from Apple people. Thank you. James