Virus on IOS 8!

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RicardoNeuro Author

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Virus on IOS 8!

DO ANYBODY IS EXPERIENCING A VIRUS BEHAVIOR ON IOS8?

I am experiencing a much probable virus behavior on My iPhone 5 with IOS 8 !!!!

It turned Itself the Voice Over program on

Prevents me of turn it off by all means: slide button and It come back immediately to the active position by Itself!

When I try to restore It by iTunes it prevents me to turn off Find My iPhone by freezing the password screen the exact time needed to cancel this operation!

I'm getting really madly upset by now!

I'm sure It is malicious and probably a virus

Ricardo

iPhone 3G, iMac 27, MacBook, MacBookAir, MacMini, 2xiMac 21, iOS 4, many iPods

Posted on Oct 3, 2014 12:43 PM

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Answer 1

Axeman1020

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Oct 3, 2014 12:49 PM in response to RicardoNeuro

This is not a virus. You most likely enabled it accidentally. Once enable, it has a special set of gesture.

Triple tap the Home button.

If the Triple-Tap does not work, use the gestures below to navigate to:
Settings > General > Accessibility > VoiceOver > turn VoiceOver off

VoiceOver navigation:

Tap once to select an item
Double-Tap to activate a selected item
Swipe three fingers to scroll

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RicardoNeuro Author

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Oct 3, 2014 1:15 PM in response to Axeman1020

I swear I did all of that!

But, as I said It come back to ON position automatically and immediately despite all carefully performed gesture.

What about the password screen freeze all the time just when I try to restore the iPhone from iTunes?

that's why Apple should consider this a malicious script

obsv.: now I could delete the iPhone by iCloud remotely and start it again from the blank...

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Answer 3

Axeman1020

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Oct 3, 2014 1:26 PM in response to RicardoNeuro

There are, to date, no known iOS viruses. This is most likely a bad update or software bugs in iOS.

Quit all apps (Double tap the Home button and swipe the app preview page up for each open app) then Reset: Hold the Sleep/Wake and Home buttons and don’t let go until the screen goes dark and the Apple logo appears (no data will be lost)
If that does not work, backup then use iTunes to restore your iOS device to factory settings, then restore your backup.
If that does not work, the issue may be in your backup. Use iTunes to restore your iOS device to factory settings then set it up as a new device

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RicardoNeuro Author

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Oct 3, 2014 1:47 PM in response to Axeman1020

Ok Ok but...

1) To restore to factory setting you NEED to turn off FIND MY IPHONE, which is BLOCKED by a very "coincident" FREEZE of the password input screen, during a particular time, sufficient to cancel the inquiring by TIME OVER... 10 times or more in the same way

2) I am the first one to rise up flags to defend Apple, but, i can sniff a bad intentioned routine like here in this "bug". It doesn't looks like a mere coincidence... be alert... just that!

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Answer 5

Axeman1020

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Oct 3, 2014 1:46 PM in response to RicardoNeuro

RicardoNeuro wrote:

Ok Ok but...

1) To restore to factory setting you NEED to turn off FIND MY IPHONE, which is BLOCKED by a very "coincident" FREEZE of the password input screen, during a particular time, sufficient to cancel the inquiring by TIME OVER...

My first step to try was to quit all apps & reset. Did you do that?

RicardoNeuro wrote:

2) I am the first one to rise up flags to defend Apple, but, i can sniff a bad intention like in this "bug". It doesn't looks like a mere coincidence... be alert... just that!

I am not defending Apple. I am just telling you that many people have had issues with the update and some similar to yours.

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