iOS 9 iPhone virus?l

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iOS 9 iPhone virus?l

im so sad. I usually always block cookies. I think my phone is allergic. When i must I turn on "allow". After my business is done I immediately Block and clear. My phone is highly allergic to cookies. That being said, since this new update to 9 I've seen regularly occurring cookies that have made my phone go into anaphylaxis shock! nothing works till I clear the "blocked" cache of cookies. Seriously every few minutes. rebooted my phone several times. Cannot shake 'em. my phone is not jail broke. the menacing sites are:

• gstatic.com • google-analytics • fonts.googleapis.com

there are more. these seems to always be there and everytime I clear them, just like magic, my phone starts to work again.

Its a problem. Please help. How can get them to go away?

iPhone 5s, iOS 9

Posted on Sep 20, 2015 1:11 PM

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Answer 1

Sep 20, 2015 1:46 PM in response to OhMama

Can you describe what the problem is your having with your phone without resorting to the allergy metaphor? What is actually happening on the phone?

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Sep 20, 2015 2:24 PM in response to IdrisSeabright

I will try. Random odd things. Like just now. I got a response email. Went to cookies, cleared it out. Cookies were off, turned it on. Linked from the email to the discussion. Logged in. The page brought me back but not logged in. Did this a few times. Went back to cookies. Cleared it again. And here I am. One example. Others are "too many redirects" message or just blank pages. Apps not opening completely or not at all. this was going with setup.icloud.com and quota.icould.com before the update. Those havent appeared since these others started.

oo! Just now while looking up the definition of a word I used in this reply.

mmessage:

"400. That's an error. Your client has issued a malformed or illegal request. That's all we know"

ANd < that. Keeping the "caps on" for 2 letters before switching to lowercase Ugh! and the period. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

AGain though, like magic, I'll clear those stupid cookies and everything will ok again. For about 3 minutes.

Hope that was more concise. i appreciate any insight. Thank you.

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Sep 20, 2015 2:39 PM in response to OhMama

OhMama wrote:

ANd < that. Keeping the "caps on" for 2 letters before switching to lowercase Ugh! and the period. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

That is an error with the software that runs these forums. It's been a problem for a couple of years now. It has nothing to do with your phone.

I got a response email. Went to cookies, cleared it out. Cookies were off, turned it on. Linked from the email to the discussion. Logged in. The page brought me back but not logged in. Did this a few times. Went back to cookies. Cleared it again.

If you keep clearing the cookies, you will keep being logged out. Also, the forum software will log you out after a while, regardless. What you're describing sounds like pretty normal forum behavior taking into account that you keep deleting and turning off cookies.

I think you'll have a lot fewer problems if you stop turning cookies on and off. Use the private browsing function for those times you don't want your browsing tracked.

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