[ipad] iPad VIRUS WARNING!!!

[Koldov]

Can anyone tell me if this is a serious threat - as in infectious drive by website, or just phishing click-bait to get you to go to an infected website or to a 'support' site?

 

As screenshots are disabled on the children's iPads, I have altered the second photo (it looked far more legit originally) to save you from the fact that the gloss screen made a perfect selfie...

 

Unfortunately, as a bit of a knee-jerk reaction I killed the safari session and cleared the browsing history and restarted the ipad - so can't give exact details about the site.

 

I will say this was on an LGFL connection with their filtering (I have raised the issue), but without more specific details on the website accessed, I'm not sure what they can do.

 

 

[Michael]

Look at the URL in the first screen shot. It doesn't look legit to me at all.

[FN-GM]

Also why would Google produce such as a message. They are not an AV company.

[Michael]

Google will block pages with Malware though, so they do indeed scan pages, in addition to your local AV.

[FN-GM]

But it won't remove them

[Michael]

Indeed they won't/can't remove the page, but just restrict access.

 

An iPad virus isn't impossible though, it's just more difficult being a closed system.

[bald_pig]

dodgy website, app storestore, ignore and block the domain.

[Brimstone]

Indeed they won't/can't remove the page, but just restrict access.

 

An iPad virus isn't impossible though,

While malware phishing attacks can try and fool you into revealing your login details, it is impossible to infect on a non jailbroken iOS device and files as they are sandboxed.

[Michael]

I wouldn't say impossible, just exceptionally difficult. I'd say it's borderline dangerous or mis-leading to say any programme is impossible to break, irrelevant if it has sandboxing or not.

 

This is why iOS has regular updates, which include both improvements and security enhancements.

[3s-gtech]

"virus have been detected on your Apple iPad"

"Apple iPad is infected with virus"

 

Seems legit.

[Brimstone]

"virus have been detected on your Apple iPad"

"Apple iPad is infected with virus"

 

Seems legit.

I presume this is sarcasm....

[SteveM555]

What's an App storestore?

 

Looks like an infected page/dodgy domain. Bad spelling, horrendous URL and how would Google know you're infected?

[3s-gtech]

 

Appalling SPG is one of the first warning signs for trojans and scams. It's almost as if the perpetrators want to give us a hint. Of course, that hint is often missed by the wider public because many don't have strong literacy skills.

[elsiegee40]

Most likely to be a "bad ad"

 

One of these things attempting to lure the unwary onto clicking through.

 

Not of huge concern if nobody clicked on it

[JATSO]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRM31VRNQw0

 

Nasty PC's

[ZeroHour]

As long as you keep iOS updated there are less risks for viruses/malware. There have been a few exploits in the past but a clean wipe of the ipad would remove them.

Its one of those bad ad's that fake a virus warning then will probably push you to install an app on the app store which is not free/full of ads. The app cant really infect anything though when installed, they just try for a quick buck.