iOS Security warning that says "Your Apple iPhone may be infected with malicious Virus's"

as repeated on this thread over and over there are currently no virus for non-jailbroken iOS devices.

stop going to the site that is facilitating this scam - All this is a pop up ad that will say anything it wants. It's not a warning generated by your browser, it's not a warning generated by iOS.

Avoid phishing emails, fake ‘virus‘ alerts, phony support calls, and other scams

https://support.apple.com/en-us/ht204759

Congratulations. You did exactly what the scammers wanted you to do. lt of course claimed to remove something to make you believe it "works", and perpetuate the belief you need it. You don't. It did nothing. Well, it did do one thing. It told you a bald-faced lie.

If it's still running, close the app immediately. You have no idea what it's doing in the background. But you can bet it's not for your benefit. Double tap the home button, then slide that app up and off the screen. Then delete that piece of 100% garbage.

No, you didn't. As AKRBTN noted, your iCloud account got hacked, not your iPad. Typically, this is because of a weak password that was easily guessed or broken.

There are NO VIRUSES on iOS devices. A virus is a specific type of malware. The distinguishing feature is they self replicate by infecting other devices it can directly see, and then copy itself to. These do not exist in iOS. There has yet to be one in the Mac OS, either. Unix, which the Mac OS sits on top of, is extremely good at blocking this type of infection because of its purposely built design of permissions. A virus is almost impossible on either system because they can't write themselves wherever they want on a drive. The OS doesn't allow it.

MS has only very recently started trying to make Windows more like Unix. But it is still a huge, gaping Swiss Cheese security design. That is mostly due to large corporate users who insist that newer versions of Windows do not break decades old company proprietary software. In order for that software to function, the OS needs to be as virtually wide open to apps writing data anywhere they want as it was 20-30 years ago. MS needs to just tell these companies, TOUGH! We're locking the OS down. Update your ancient apps.

CoolGuyGamer wrote:

Okay, this had happened to me. I got the app, and it did remove the virus! I recommend getting it, but’s it’s your choice. The app did work, so I believe you should get it.

Hops this helped.

As there was no virus to remove, of course it removed it. But the app probably installed spyware to replace the non-existent virus.

To repeat what has been said before, in CAPS:

IOS CANNOT GET A VIRUS, PERIOD. UNLESS IT HAS BEEN JAILBROKEN, WHICH REQUIRES PHYSICAL POSSESSION OF THE PHONE FOR AN EXTENDED PERIOD OF TIME.

Probably because it isn't coming from Onavo, which is a reputable company (more or less). And if you follow the link it will try to install a hacked version of Onavo.

I got a similar notice (see below) when going to COSTCO’s website. I never except things like that without checking the validity of the message. Things like that are designed to cause people to freak out and react without thinking it through.

simonegoetze wrote:

What should I do if I have installed the app, but then uninstalled it? There have been no more messages with viruses and I have no trouble getting on safari and chrome?

If you're no longer getting the scam messages, you don't need to do anything.

Okay, to get this straight, I DID have a virus, some hackers changed everything on my iPad to Hong Kong, messaged EVERYONE on my contacts list an inapropriate website, and more things which gave my iPad a virus. I have had the Protection app for a year now, it has done nothing. I’d know if it did. 😝 :/

Hey guys, am assuming this was the latest variant of this - got a message warning me to download Onavo security app as I am open to infection by 'Wanna Cry' virus... given content above, I didn't do so, but my question is why doesn't Apple contact Onavo and penalise them (or at least give them some sort of warning) for their involvement in this?

I got something similar and I got SIX of them!

But don't worry they are fake to get you to worry and buy there things "to help" DONT PRESS THE LINK it could give you the virus. Apple has the best virus protection so I think SIX viruses would be hard to get in. Also the six virus I "got" said that it would delete my SIMs card but I am still here right? And mine said that I was visiting adult websites WHY WOULD DO THAT? (just pointing that out) here's a picture of mine

This is the one I just received. I was in WTForecast at the time. Is WTForecast browser based? As soon as I double-clicked home, attempting to get to settings, the warning disappeared. (I cleared cache settings anyhow.)

What should I do if I have installed the app, but then uninstalled it? There have been no more messages with viruses and I have no trouble getting on safari and chrome?

Okay, this had happened to me. I got the app, and it did remove the virus! I recommend getting it, but’s it’s your choice. The app did work, so I believe you should get it.

Hops this helped.

That’s a good point. I very well could have mistyped it. I did look at the address when the notice popped up and it had redirected to somewhere else. Definitely not COSTCO or anything like it.

That’s what I got a few minutes ago using Safari.

Maybe some websites are infected?

Y’all take it EZ,

Rober