Gizmodo is reporting a possible iPhone virus. A user called it in and Apple support told him in four very scary words that it must’ve been a virus. The user never took a picture. The solution from Apple support seems to have worked and nothing else was seen or heard.
A Gizmodo reader is claiming that his iPhone got what Apple support said “sounds like a virus.” Last night he heard a received SMS ring but there was none. Instead, the iPhone’s date was replaced by the text “Player Haters (red alert).” Since the first external app was compiled this week, it’s hard to believe. There are other explanations. [Gizmodo]
We want to help Gizmodo find more evidence of this virus, so if you happen to have an iPhone seen something something weird on the screen, post it in the comments section.
July 22nd, 2007 at 2:21 pm
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September 24th, 2007 at 9:29 pm
I have gotten many viruses on my new iphone. The date turned into 666 and said that hell will come upon us. Every body in my phone book received texted messages from me saying that. I can’t believe I traded my Treo for an iphone. Shame on me!!!
November 6th, 2007 at 6:29 am
I recieved a SMS on my phone and since I tried to view it I am not being able to open my SMS inbox, does anyone knows about this?
November 7th, 2007 at 3:43 am
Hey Bhuwan i got the same text as well and since then i cant open my inbox anymore please let me know if u found a solution Regards
November 8th, 2007 at 1:23 pm
I received a sms saying something about harry potter,when I opened the sms nothing displays and my sms folder is bloked and can’t access it opens and closes.Any suggestions?
November 8th, 2007 at 11:19 pm
I have the same problem with my iphone, my sms folder won’t open after I received a text. Any solution yet?
November 13th, 2007 at 6:21 am
I had the same problem 3 nights ago and ever since I opened the SMS, my SMS folder opens and then closes again. There seems to be no way to open the SMS Folder or to retrieve stored messages. Does anyone know how to solve this issue?
Many thanks guys !
November 14th, 2007 at 12:43 am
I experienced the same problem after I’ve received a message with some funny characters. What I did was reset my iphone and erase all the contents and settings and then synchronize it again. You must set it “as a new phone” otherwise, all the old settings will be stored in your phone again including the sms. Then you could upload again your music playlist,videos, photos, etc.
Hope this helps.
November 19th, 2007 at 6:15 am
Just go Setting-General-Reset-All content and settings -
this will solve the problem
Thanks
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jabateh@gmail.com
November 23rd, 2007 at 7:53 am
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December 13th, 2007 at 5:40 pm
I had installer.app on 1.1.2 and everything was fine but some stupid thing happened to my phone from a source. It kept asking me for my voicemail password and then restarting and then everything would go blurry then it turned off snd the apple signal popped up then a bunch of horizontal black an white stripes popped up and going on and off. Couldnt turn it off or touch the screen. notta. pissed me off. couldnt even connect my phone to itunes. kept reading an unknown error. Had to finally somehow restore it erasing everything. Now I cant even get all the apps back or my numbers or crap. Ne help would be appreciated. Thanks— michaeljamesdunn@hotmail.com
February 10th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
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March 30th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Hello,Yesterday I added source in my installer and it kind of stuck.Then I wait until the battery went off and I start onning the phone again.The phone is still stuck until now.The phone can be on but the message that says that moving the icon kept coming out.Is it a virus?Please help me.
WeiLee
April 18th, 2008 at 6:08 am
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May 13th, 2008 at 1:59 am
Wow I need help, my phone is stuck on the black screen with the apple in the middle. I have tried a hard reset and a few times i got this worm or sentipead thing cral on my screen and my phone keeps vibrating. i have not been able to get in of that black screen with the apple logo, does any one have any suggestions
May 13th, 2008 at 1:31 pm
After I installed the volume booster (1.1.4) on my iphone and restarted it, a weird thing appeared on the startup screen. It looked like a hole with some grey stuff leaking out of it, and the Apple-icon started blinking. But i havent noticed anything weird since that, so I guess it was just a bug or something..
May 16th, 2008 at 8:57 am
i badly need help please read:
i got an iphone as a big christmas present and i loved it but then i installed some theme for summerboard and then when i tried to set the theme the little loading thing appeared in the screen (as normal) but then it stayed stuck like that for ages and wasn’t doing anything and then it went black with the apple sign in the middle and the loading sign still there aswell and it wasn’t doing anything. i tried turning it off nothing. i left it for a while and it turned off and then when i turn it back on the apple appears in the middle of the screen with the little loading sign on top of it and it keeps vibrating.
please help if you have the same prob or and solutions email me. thanks
P.S never install sometheme for summerboard with the name being something eagles or something like that
June 16th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
A couple days ago, my iPhone froze. I could not shut it off or even slide the button to open the main page from my screensaver. Eventually that night it restarted and all was fine. That next night, it messed up again. I was listening to the iPod and it froze up. I could still scan through songs, but when I pressed the home button, nothing happened. WTF is going on with our iPhones?
March 16th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
my iphone was freezing and i had to turn it off and it kept on freezing and all of the sudden this old man comes up on my screen and this is what it reads on a bubble npebea it wont turn on anymore. i need help
April 16th, 2009 at 8:17 am
My phone started freezing, then blacking out And not coming back on. It kicks me out of my apps, and safari for no reason. It recieves random repeated texts in the middle of the night, that drives me crazy!!!!
April 28th, 2009 at 11:01 am
Ive been getting blank text messages from “£¡” Ive tried to text back, but nothing. Then today i tried to call it back and….BAM a sad iphone face appeared and the phone crashed.
May 7th, 2009 at 1:51 am
hi i hane a problem with my iphone when i put the key pad loc it turns my iphone off ……. i dont know what to do plz help
May 16th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
I’ve recently acquired one as well, that messes with my settings, at first the autolock would lock as soon as I unlocked it, luckly I had sbsettings to fix that one, and then discovered all my alarms were turned off as well, a week or so has passed to have my ringtones all changed to the factory settings and 5 columns turned off… The interesting thing is there was no reset done which as you know is required to activate/deactivate 5 columns… So far it hasn’t done anything else but I’m not taking a chance, I think it was tied into the theme ihome 2.0 but have no proof!! I did notice when I installed that theme the icons didn’t shake when I wanted to move them, before the theme was selected in winterboard
June 21st, 2009 at 7:47 pm
reguarding Norma for # 19. my phone just had the old man with the voice bubble doing the same thing. im freaking out !! how did you fix yours.. am i giong to loose all my numbers and texts meassages and pictures? please email if you know anything.
June 27th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
I have over 600 trojan viruses! It won’t let the
free scan fix them. I get kicked out of safari
& apps, black screen, freezing. I don’t know
what to do, when I try to remove them with
“Internet security tools.com” it says “safari
cannot download this file”. The details of some
Trojans say that they will take passwords and
personal info etc. any thoughts. This is not a
joke, 527 Trojans in C drive(didn’t know these
phones had drives) 110 in my documents & so on,
please help if you know anything about these viruses
July 4th, 2009 at 4:59 pm
A OLD MAN WITH A WORD BUBBLE IS ON MY IPHONE AND IT WONT LET ME DO ANYTHIGN! IS THIS A VIRUS. CAN IT BE FIXED???
July 29th, 2009 at 10:53 am
i have the man with a bubble to can anyone help would like to fix
i can;t get into the phone he appears and then the phone shuts down
re start it and can’t do anything he is there… tried to search iphone and they said it is a virus but can’t fix it as it is unknowen tried… to reset it but that didn’t work either…. some suggestions would be nice help please…….
July 30th, 2009 at 8:42 am
I read a good story about iphone virus
http://taszara.com/iphone-hacker-is-back-iphone-virus-is-discovered/1058/
July 30th, 2009 at 9:39 am
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July 31st, 2009 at 5:29 pm
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August 13th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
I am having a different problem on my iPhone. When I try to use the phone I only get a list of favorites. I can’t change the screen to get a dial pad or to check my most recent calls. Any ideas?
November 9th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
And as we all know. The iPhone runs OSX. The operating system that is supposedly immune (according to apple), too viruses. The iphone is more popular than mac, proving that once they get popular they get hit just like pc’s. Actually pc’s are better protected..
Apple is OVER RATED!