How can I get rid of a Congratulations-you-won.com-yourprize.com pop up window on my iPad? It wants me to answer ok but I'm afraid it is a virus.

LogezP wrote:

Stay away from pornographic websites and you won't get the issue.

Not at all true. There are many other kinds of sites out there where you will see these same scam pop-ups. Even a normal, legit site could be the victim of a problem like this, if it - or the ad network it uses for its advertising - gets hacked.

I'm not advocating going to p0rn sites, just saying that you're not going to avoid the problem just by avoiding them.

BeaBeaDesigns wrote:

Hi

Many thanks for the suggested Fix. I tried your method, twice, but I still have exactly the same problem. Do you have any further suggestions or advice?

Thanks

One of the websites you visit may have been bugged with the script. You'll have to find out what that site is and avoid accessing it until they fix the problem.

I'm getting this pop up on my iPhone and only when I go to the ABC News website abc.net.au/news/ with Safari, when I use Google Chrome I don't get the pop up?? I've tried all the options to stop this pop up and nothing is working?

I'm tired of going to Safari to clear history every time I am on the internet. Can anything be done to stop these? It is very irritating - by clearing history my saved passwords are gone, my history is gone, my favorites are gone - why can't we stop this if we have pop-ups blocked??

Thanks for that. I was stupid enough to click "ok" to get Safari to work again (should have done a search before that, stupid I know) and was worried that some harm was done. However, I closed the tab after clicking on the "ok button" and didn't provide any information whatsoever.

wwhen you are just surfing use private mode it protects you better. you will not have things added to you history or website data. also go to safari and open your advanced section and look at your website data. edit it by deleting any thing that looks like it needs to go away.

So all this time you're saying your wife's phone isn't affected because you have never visited the same website using her phone? That makes sense. Now I'm thinking the website is the source of the problem. Have you contacted the website administrator to let them know about the problem? Btw, it is a javascript. It does nothing but annoys visitors.

You're welcome ... glad you didn't fall for their scam.

Hi

Many thanks for the suggested Fix. I tried your method, twice, but I still have exactly the same problem. Do you have any further suggestions or advice?

Thanks

Stay away from pornographic websites and you won't get the issue.

Thanks! This helped me too!

I am having the same trouble -- Congratulations you won etc, but I was not using Safari. Is there something I can do if I was using Chrome?

Highly unlikely if your phone isn't jailbroken. It's the link (to a website) in Facebook that is making it happen.