Screen with warning of Virus and malicious applications pop up screen

Can the hackers/phishers do anything nefarious with my iPad now that they have my serial number?

Not a whole lot.

They can possibly use it to sell a stolen, activation locked device by using your serial number. The buyer will try to look up information on that unit and find nothing wrong since it's your device and not the one the crook is selling. But even so, trying to even just find a history of info for a given serial number isn't easy.

Or, they could try to convince Apple the device is theirs and was stolen, hoping Apple will blacklist its IMEI or get the unit locked. If they succeed in that (and Apple shouldn't comply without real proof the device belongs to them), they then may try to contact you to extort a ransom to release the device. Something they can't do no matter how much money you fork over. On the very unlikely chance this would even happen, just bring the device in to an Apple Store with your official sales receipt to get it unlocked.

I got the same screen, and at the same time files were downloading on my desktop. It started when I used Safari to search for a recipe, and clicked on one. The files downloading were titled "unknown" and probably had a suffix of .download. I had to force quit safari in order to stop them downloading, then I went into finder to move all the files (thousands of them) to trash. Then I emptied the trash. That got rid of the files, and I shut down for a while. When I booted up again, everything was ok until I opened Safari again. Then it started all over again. So the problem has to be in, or triggered in, Safari. How do I get rid of it?

Hey, I had a similar screen pop up. I use a streaming site thats a little sketchy for sports, when you click play it redirects to another page. It is the fake apple website that says you have a virus. I know its fake and always close the tab and then you can actually play the stream. Yesterday I missed the x to close the tab and clicked the page. A bar came down saying I had viruses attacking and my Mac started a continuous beep. It also started to download 113 document titled unknown. A legitimate tab came up and I paused the download, then restarted the MacBook. I then cleared downloads, safari cache, and history. Nothing else has happened and I ran Bitmedic from the App Store, it only found 1 malware in a very old email. Is my Mac ok then? is it safe to do online banking and stuff?

Excellent! Glad to hear your Mac appears to be cleaned up. 🙂

Thanks Kurt,

That makes a lot of sense. I probably don't need to purchase the Premium.

Great advice! I will make wise choices now on what sites I pick.

Lou

whos is sirs

Your question is going to have to be much more specific than that.

I received the same pop-up

How did you get these pop up to stop? These are continually popping up on my MAC. TIA

I also received this just this morning.

my said that I had 5 minutes to download this app

I got this message today and called. I was asked for my iPad serial number. I was foolish enough to give it to them before regaining my senses and hanging up. Can the hackers/phishers do anything nefarious with my iPad now that they have my serial number?

Hey, I had a similar screen pop up. I use a streaming site thats a little sketchy for sports, when you click play it redirects to another page. It is the fake apple website that says you have a virus. I know its fake and always close the tab and then you can actually play the stream. Yesterday I missed the x to close the tab and clicked the page. A bar came down saying I had viruses attacking and my Mac started a continuous beep. It also started to download 113 document titled unknown. A legitimate tab came up and I paused the download, then restarted the MacBook. I then cleared downloads, safari cache, and history. Nothing else has happened and I ran Bitmedic from the App Store, it only found 1 malware in a very old email. Is my Mac ok then? is it safe to do online banking and stuff?

Kurt, wonderful and clear advice to our posters here.

So glad you're still so involved in helping!

:-)

Thanks, I did remove bit medic and tried Malwarebytes, says Im clean so I guess Im good to go