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

You have subscribed to an advertiser’s calendar, and the advertising calendar is filled with, well, advertising,

Delete (unsubscribe from) the subscribed calendar filled with all the scary-worded advertising,

Tap on the following blue-text link for unsubscribe info ➡️ Delete spam calendars and events on iPhone - Apple Support

There’s no hack, no malware, and nothing wrong here, and—past unsubscribing—nothing to clean up.

This noise was “just” an advertiser’s “do you want to subscribe?” calendar that was offered by some website, and that was then accepted/subscribed.

Here is some of the other scams and other trash that’s around ➡️ Recognize and avoid phishing messages, phony support calls, and other scams - Apple Support

sidheeque224 wrote:

How to remove virus

Congrats, the virus never was. Nothing to remove, and nothing to do. The advertiser, well, lied.

Pop-ups are advertisements, and usually for sketchy products because, well, pop-up ads.

Websites cannot scan your device. If they could, they’d just upload everything passwords and all, and wouldn’t bother trying to cause fear or panic or curiosity or anger or whatever hook the particular ad uses.

The word “virus” is popular with advertisers and sketchy products lately, too. Sketchy products that are probably going to cause you problems, and that may well be uploading your data and network activities for re-sale. One of the better-known anti-virus apps quietly did exactly this, too.

What to do here? Nothing. Your iPhone is fine.

tommyk4 wrote:

i was opening up an app in safari and all of sudden this security threat appeared and told me i needed to call apple support and that i had only so much time to do so ,i notice a clock counting down the minutes i had no con tool of my mouse so i just unplugged it and restarted it and everything was ok .do i have a virus

You saw an advertisement, one that lied, advertising a product or service that will cause you grief.

This pattern is routinely used for a tech support scam seeking to access your credentials and to your local system and cause you massive damage, should you have been unwise enough to call the “Apple” phone number (scammers, not Apple), where “Apple” (scammers, not really Apple) would then show you some scary looking drivel—probably some innocuous log file, but the ”evidence” of compromise offered here can or will vary—and encouraging you to provide the scammers with remote access. Should you provide that access to the scammers, then things will end badly.

This pattern can be used for other shenanigans, such as installing sketchy products.

There is no virus here. Just some advertisers lying.

Sending email addresses can be forged / faked / spoofed, advertisers (callers, pop-ups, text messagrs, whatever) claiming to be Apple or the government tax authority or the police with a warrant or whatever other premise can lie, and calling telephone numbers can be spoofed / faked / forged.

Visit the following webpage for info from Apple ➡️ Recognize and avoid phishing messages, phony support calls, and other scams - Apple Support

Giulio99 wrote:

My system is infected. What is the right way to extract these viruses from the computer?

Your Mac computer is infected? Or an iPhone or iPad?

What are the symptoms that you are encountering?

Which model and what model year of Mac are you using, and with which version of macOS?

If you see messages in Calender, then Go to Safari > open Calenders > Account.

there should be 1 account. If you see more than 1 account linked then open them and delete all accounts except you iCloud account.

Thank you

Hello ~ Take a look here:

Recognize and avoid phishing messages, phony support calls

Delete spam calendars and events on iPhone - Apple Support

Please go through some of the other posts here in this thread. Your iPhone has no viruses. These are scams by criminals trying to gain information and access to your device. Do not click on anything or give out any of your info and if you have:

If you think your Apple ID has been compromised - Apple ...

~Katana-San~

Hello ~ Take a look here and you really don’t need an “anti virus” just read through links below

Recognize and avoid phishing messages, phony support calls

Delete spam calendars and events on iPhone - Apple Support

Please go through some of the other posts here in this thread. Your iPhone has no viruses. These are scams by criminals trying to gain information and access to your device. Do not click on anything or give out any of your info and if you have:

If you think your Apple ID has been compromised - Apple ...

~Katana-San~

Got a similar message when using Google. It also froze my screen. Still looking for a tool to get the virus.

How do I stop it from coming up every time I open a new tab?

See Mackjack's reply on page 1 of this discussion, and follow all of the steps that have been outlined in the post.

GB

It's fishing, it will always be fishing.

No company contacts their users in this way.

It's fishing.

I received a pop up in Safari stating "immediate action required We have detected a trojan virus (e.tre456_worm_osx) on my mac

press ok to repair the process.

Scam. There is no possible way to detect what's on a remote computer through a web browser.

Mine did this morning and I clicked out of it. Probably a scam.

Ipishipi12 wrote:

What antivirus should I use for my macbook pro?

Effective defenses against malware and ot… - Apple Community

And just what do you expect Apple to do about it? They don't and can't control the entirety of the Internet, or personally decide who can or can't call you.