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.

THANK YOU!

I Just got it from weather bug today, found this site, all helpful and comforting. Thanks.

Thank you, Star Traveler. I did this, but I see that my search bar remained gray, so am wondering if there is still an issue?

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??

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?

Darn and I just loaded Chrome hoping it wouldn't happen !!

Sorry didn't see any response to appleuser1556, asking what if questions are answered.

Support - don't understand your question

But so far so good with Chrome for me - Sidebar still on Safari with no luck clicking bookmark icons - wish I could change default browser to Chrome

I may be the only person in IOS land that does not not what a flashlight ap is? How do I know if any of mine are that type?

Regards

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.

That was helpful, thank you.

I've had a similar problem on both my iPhone and today on my iPad with something called "http://mobile-rewards.mobi/" while using Facebook claiming I'd won a prize. It looks as if legitimate by identifying me as an Earthlink customer. It gives me only the option to click OK and freezes everything else on the screen and I'm very wary of clicking on it and by googling the above address I can still get no helpful information. If I just quit Facebook, it's still there when I open it again. Today I simply fully powered down my iPad and restarted and the pop-up window disappeared. The first time it happened my iPhone though I carelessly OK but then realized it was probably not legit, and can't recall what I did and still wonder if it infected my phone somehow.

No it didn't, it is a browser hijack.

Thank you so much - this fixed the problem for me.