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.

There is a solution on the first page. Did you read that and Clear History and Website Data?

The problem is not the contact but the info. Airplane mode simply turns off the contact.....same as leaving site and closing tab.

How on earth do I do that? I clear my cookies and browser history after every one of these attacks and it doesn't stop them from happening within a few hours. CBS News, NYT, The Hill, ZeroHedge, are the main culprits, but it can happen anywhere with advertisements.

I downloaded NeverAds (free), two weeks ago, haven’t seen another pop-up yet.

All the best☺

Not true. And annoying.

I bow to your superior expertise when it comes to Pornographic websites LogezP. It was actually tracked down to a security issue with a Wordpress Plug-in being used in all innocence on a Bloggers site.

Thank You for your help Thomas_r and ShagCA.

I have same question as appleuser1556 (see below) : what happens if you click ok and go through some of the questions?

appleuser1556Jun 16, 2015 8:45 AM Re: 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.
Re: 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.in response to dursp

I got this on my ipad, and I turned off my wi-fi thinking that then I could click okay and get out of it without downloaded anything malicious. I clicked okay and it brought me to a page which I did not even read because I panicked at that point (I was not expecting any new page to appear because the wi-fi was off). So I clicked out of the window before I could think straight, and I don't even know what it said. Is it possible that they have installed anything on my ipad or stolen any information? I did go into settings and deleted my Safari history at that point. I am usually careful about these things but I lost my head for a moment.

Just started getting this issue today. I can solve it for a while using the 'clear history' method in settings but it eventually pops up again later. There must be a more permanent fix? Is there any malware/adware app I can use? The add is similar to the one here but from 'Facebook-rewards.re' .Really worried

Hi, hoping that someone can help me. I have a similar problem as the topicstarter.

Currently have the following devices:

iPhone 6s, iOS 9.2.1, U.S. Apple ID

iPad Air2, iOS 9.2.1., Dutch Apple ID (recently moved from the Netherlands to the U.S. didn't change my Apple ID yet)

MacBook Pro retina, early 2015, OS X El Capitan 10.11.3, U.S. Apple ID

Now when I visit a certain website on my iPhone, ajax.network.to (from my favorite Dutch soccer club), I keep getting pop-ups that try and link me through to a website with a pop-up claiming I won something. I have been visiting this website on an near-daily basis without problems up until today. When I try and visit the same website from my iPad or Macbook I do not experience this nuisance. Same happens when in Facebook and I click through a link to go to a local Dutch news website (only that one!). Again, only happens on my iPhone.

iPhone is rather new (Dec. '15) and didn't jailbreak or anything. What could this be and how to solve it? Obviously tried erasing history/data, turning iPhone off/on. I want to keep visiting these websites and since I do not experience this problem on my iPad or with my MacBook I doubt that the problem is on the websites end?

Please help! Thanks in advance!!!

You have isolated the problem to your iPhone (other iOS devices do not experience the same pop-up problem). How do you access the internet on the iPhone, MacBook and iPad? Do you configure Safari browser exactly the same on all iOS devices (block pop-up enabled)?

Thanks for responding so promptly ShagCA,

Yes the problem is isolated to my iPhone. I do access the internet with all devices using Safari. Configurations are the same, so yes block pop-up is enabled on iPhone, iPad, Macbook. Do Not Track is enabled, as is Fraudulent Website Warning and I do Block Cookies except from websites I visit.

We can rule the router out. All devices are connected to the same network. Just turned off Wifi on my phone. Cleared all data and history and visited the website and was again prompted with the problem. My wife doesn't have this problem on the same network with her iPhone / iPad / Macbook so somehow it really seems isolated to my iPhone ...

********. I just got a brand new iPhone. It started happening immediately. Clearing browsing history will not solve anything. The problem is apple's inability to control ads and site scripting.

Hello,

I'm very worried right now. Carelessly, I pressed "OK" I thought I could just press it, and exit out soon after. I did. After pressing ok, I exited out the page. After reading this thread, I am very worried. Will anything happen to my phone from now on? Please help, anyone.

-jenny

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