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My Weather Inbox ????

I had something show up on my iPhone 6 that looked like it was a normal app. Alas, it doesn't appear to be. It looked all right until it asked to be installed through settings. Now it shows up as an actual email address and it appears that it is spam email. I tried to delete the inbox, and there is no option to delete it. Any ideas from where this came? The host name is 20160104.imap.email? I have turned it off and deleted turned off the server, but I don't want it on my phone. HELP!

Posted on Jan 3, 2016 7:10 PM

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Feb 4, 2017 10:12 PM in response to ZachEAikins18

I tried to do this but the profile in my case (it's called Movies) does not offer me the option to delete it. It only says "tap install to continue". I cannot delete the account from the mail settings either. I first noticed it tonight on my iPad but could the problem be that it came in on my iPhone? I just want it gone and am scared that I didn't even know it was there. Can you help? Thanks

Feb 5, 2017 9:16 PM in response to doncow

Not sure who I'm actually replying to here but because I pretty much solved my issue through reading this thread, I wanted to thank Zach as well. In my case, this "profile " came in on my iPhone because I foolishly let a Costco salesman put the DirectTV app on my phone as part of his demo to get me to sign up for DirectTV. I had no idea that allowing him to add the app gave them permission to add a profile on my iTunes account which in turn added it to my Mail account on my iPad. The profile was simply named "MOVIES " and it had me stumpe. After reading Zach's solution, the only thing I came up against was that I could not delete the profile because it was grayed out and had actually not been "configured". I was afraid to click on the installation prompt but finally decided to see what the next prompt was and fortunately, it was what I hoped. I was then able to choose not to install and also had the option to delete the profile. I then restarted my iPad and all was well.


Thanks.🙂

Mar 12, 2017 6:04 AM in response to zoso4

I got it through an app "My Radar" which I thought was the new Intellicast weather app. It apparently is a duplicate app to that, that I did not see "ad" next to. Very deceptive. Thankful it does not appear to be malware. I immediately inactivated the account and turned off it's outgoing mail server that it installed, but couldn't delete the account until I saw your reply. THANK YOU!!

Mar 13, 2017 7:16 AM in response to doncow

I just helped a friend that had the My Weather email show up on her Mail app. She had no idea how the email account got placed in her Mail app, and the symptom that prompted her to ask for help was that she could not send any email form her Hotmail account. Every time she attempted to send email out she was getting a message that said "the IMAP server rejected the message".


Looking into her Mail accounts we found the "My Weather" account, with an unknown user "insistentJ@email.minbox.com", and also found an alternative IMAP server added to her Hotmail account settings, so it is quite possible that the emails sent from her phone were being sent to a malicious site. I disabled the alternative IMAP and deleted the phony user's password but couldn't delete the .minbox.com email account, then found that her hotmail password had been changed. It appears that the latest versions of this trojan profile are attempting to do more than spam the unwary user, but they are actively changing settings and passwords.


The best thing any user with this problem can do is to delete the profile as shown in several of the responses in this thread, then change all the passwords of any accounts enabled in their iphone. Reinstalling the iOS, while extreme sounding, might be the safest course of action.

My Weather Inbox ????

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