"Your system is infected with (3) Viruses” when opening a Safari tab

Lavadude0914 wrote:

Its phishing, Just look at the url. Thats the dead giveaway, The make the website look like the apple one,then block of features and make a pop up, they literally lock your computer. The url is usually just made up of million upon thousands of numbers.

Thank you but I already read the 34 pages that explain that it is phishing.

There are messages I receive from the calendar that there are 3 viruses and will damage the device to download a program in addition that I expect the presence of a virus because we are running the battery fast and the space is filling up quickly Please inform me of a solution as soon as possible

I got a pop up box on my phone while surfing net. Said I had a Pegasus spyware on the phone and I had to call Apple right away to have it removed. 1-866-728-1713 person on the other end was a man with an Indian accent. then because I was in the basement talking we got disconnected. good thing? sounds like phising

Javier_hurtado wrote:

I have the same issue I install avast and it told me there’s nothing wrong

There was nothing wrong before you installed "Avast".

Now there is something wrong. Uninstall "Avast". Rule 1 of Macs is don't install junk.

Still 35 Pages, & Counting..

"..it's just more Phishing..!" 🌞|🎣|🐟|🎣🐠|🎣|🌜

Q: I got a popup that says “Your system is infected with (3) Viruses” and

then says to call apple support 1-866-726-****.  Has anyone ever seen

this before (only here) or is this more fishing? (yes) It's called Phishing!

[..First Posted on Mar 20, 2018 8:38 AM..]

 I have never had this question! 

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You have useless garbage running on your phone. What works best - by far - is an ad blocker. There are numerous free ones in the App Store. We use the free version of AdGuard on our iOS devices.

Nothing is perfect. Ad blockers block many ads, but they can't do anything about a site that intentionally displays false information about being infected. They can't do anything about messages or emails you receive claiming the same type of nonsense.

helenafromakron wrote:

I just received this message this morning, but I have have spamware running on my phone.

Too many of the commercial security products are trash.

At least one of the well-known commercial security products collected and resold your web activities and your web purchasing history.

As for the scammers and the schemers? The folks in the business of scamming will continue to evolve to bypass defenses against their schemes, too. This scamming is a business. A business that is increasingly automated, and that has access to vast and very distributed computing resources, too.

Some of the server account dumps are likely why y’all are getting targeted, too. Folks with icloud email caught in those dumps are probably using Apple gear. Unique passwords across all accounts too, as password “cramming“ is very popular. Your (hopefully) old passwords acquired from those same server dumps are also used in the “we’ve activated your camera” scams.

Calling telephone numbers and sending email addresses can be spoofed/forged/faked, too. A friend of mine still sends me mail occasionally, though he died several years ago. Our old email conversations got picked up in a server breach years ago, and the spammers still use that data to try to phish folks.

What to do?

Enable two-factor authentication on your Apple ID, if that’s not already enabled.

Unique passwords across all of your accounts.

Be skeptical about senders and callers.

I just gt that same nessage

i freaked

but

git right on Apple.com and found it’s nothing to worry about

the pop up had a button to scan enediatly , THATS when it probably will get downloaded.

is there a place I can get a virus scan directly from Apple ???

is there a place I can get a virus scan directly from Apple ???

Yes. It’s built into the OS and has already been done. You can’t get a virus or any other malware from viewing a webpage or even downloading something. You must actively install it yourself.

I sometimes get a warning saying that my iPhone has 3 viruses and I have to press the button and if I don't press the virus it will affect my battery and then my contacts, what can I do ?! will it and is everything okay?

manuela203 wrote:

I sometimes get a warning saying that my iPhone has 3 viruses and I have to press the button and if I don't press the virus it will affect my battery and then my contacts, what can I do ?! will it and is everything okay?

Your iPhone is fine. Your skepticism needs reinforcement. Read the thread. I posted some more detailed background information on these scams and on their fraudulent “infected!” claims in the reply immediately prior to your reply here, for instance.

noora86 wrote:

got a popup that says “Your system is infected with (3) Viruses” and then says to call apple support 1-866-726-****. Has anyone ever seen this before or is this more fishing?

Your iPhone is fine. Yes, this is more phishing. Yes, phishing is endemic.

It's far easier to hack us—people— than to hack our iPhones, iPads, and Macs.

I posted a longer write-up on this particular scam toward the top of this same page of replies.

Use the keyboard command: CMD+OPT+ESC to open up the Force Quit Menu, then force quit Safari.

Reopen Safari.

Also your Mac is fine. That's fake apple support.

What triggered this is you made a typo typing in a URL.

coumba75 wrote:

i need help

Please post a new Discussion describing your problem. This one is unrelated to printing or malware and no longer serves any beneficial purpose. Whatever method you used to find this ancient Discussion is not helping you.

Hi,

I Don't Get it, How Comes there Is Soo Many Messages And Soo Many Views for This One Conversation. Most Of The People Don't Even Read The Answers.

Anyways, My Question Is:

Is Malwarbytes Free Or Do You Have To Pay For It Cause I Don't Want Any Viruses On My Devices.

Thanks,

👑 King 👑