Was this a malicious pop-up?

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  • interstellaflyer
    interstellaflyer Posts: 2,053 Forumite
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    Generally all you need to do is press the home button then go into settings and delete browser history.
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  • Pyxis
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    interstellaflyer wrote: »
    Generally all you need to do is press the home button then go into settings and delete browser history.

    Thanks.

    It was frightening because I'd never seen anything like it before.

    At least I'll know for another time!

    Thank you, everyone! :)
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  • AnotherJoe
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    Pyxis wrote: »
    Thank you.

    It looks like it's best to delete everything and then check with Apple if in any doubt.

    Would taking a screen shot compromise me?
    No. That is just copying the pixels on the screen.

    Odds are high the application they wanted you to download was for a PC anyway, since to download it on an iPad it would need to be in the App Store which would be very unlikely.
  • Pyxis
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    AnotherJoe wrote: »
    No. That is just copying the pixels on the screen.

    Odds are high the application they wanted you to download was for a PC anyway, since to download it on an iPad it would need to be in the App Store which would be very unlikely.

    Right.
    I can't remember the exact wording, now, but they did refer to my 'iPad' more than once. A bit later on they called it an iPhone!

    The English it was written in was pretty good, but there were one or two places where it didn't sound quite fluent, which made me a bit suspicious that it wasn't from Apple.
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  • AndyPix
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    Its easy for a php/javascript to detect what browser you are using and customise its wording accordingly.


    It DEFINATELY wasn't from apple lol ..


    If you had followed it through, no doubt you would have landed on the app store page for a dubious security or a/v program, which is either owned by the scumbags who wrote the popup, or they are getting paid per install they generate.


    I promise you haven't been hacked
  • zagubov
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    You'll get popups saying you should clean your apple product with mackeeper. You probably shouldn't. Or that you need to download a new version of flash. Unless you visit the genuine flash page itself, you probably shouldn't.

    You may even get ones that'll say your Windows system is infected. You know were you stand with that.
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  • Pyxis
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    Thanks, both.

    Useful to know. :)
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  • debitcardmayhem
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    AndyPix wrote: »
    Its easy for a php/javascript to detect what browser you are using and customise its wording accordingly.


    It DEFINATELY wasn't from apple lol ..


    If you had followed it through, no doubt you would have landed on the app store page for a dubious security or a/v program, which is either owned by the scumbags who wrote the popup, or they are getting paid per install they generate.


    I promise you haven't been hacked
    Sorry andy but your post must have been generated by a dodgy English script since they would defanitely not written DEFINATELY for definitely :D
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  • AndyPix
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    edited 20 March 2017 at 5:34PM
    debitcardmayhem wrote: »
    Sorry andy but your post must have been generated by a dodgy English script since they would defanitely not written DEFINATELY for definitely :D


    Apologies. I am dyslexic and sometimes mis-spell things


    As do you it seems ..

    debitcardmayhem wrote: »
    defanitely not written DEFINATELY for definitely :D
  • Strider590
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    Well I don't know about everyone else, but i'm impressed, I think OP is ready to graduate to Android!

    Most Apple users would have fallen for that popup trick and headed off to install some juicy malware.
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