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Virus?

  • 19-02-2010 12:22pm
    #1
    Lumi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,466 ✭✭✭


    Texts and emails are being sent to most but not all of the contacts in my address book telling them that I bought my iphone from this site
    *snip* & how cheap it was.
    This is the second time this has happened since christmas - can anyone help? I purchased my iphone from O2 by the way


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  • #2
    vinnycoyne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,176 ✭✭✭vinnycoyne


    Have you unlocked or customised (jailbreak) it in any way?


  • #3
    Lumi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,466 ✭✭✭Lumi


    lackofcolour wrote: »
    Have you unlocked or customised (jailbreak) it in any way?

    No. I have done a thing to it. Its on an O2 billpay contract


  • #4
    vinnycoyne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,176 ✭✭✭vinnycoyne


    Sounds like a computer virus. Either that or someone has accessed your email account.

    I'd recommend changing your email password on a different computer and run a full virus scan (like AVG or Avast) on the infected computer.


  • #5
    pieface_ie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 301 ✭✭pieface_ie


    Did you back up your iPhone data before/around Christmas on your computer?if so it's possible as the above poster has said you may gave a computer virus.I say this as a computer virus alone wouldn't send text messages from data in your email as I don't think phone numbers are stored in email are they? So maybe like I said you made a back up of your iPhone via iTunes and perhaps this is the data that has been compromised.


  • #6
    Lumi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,466 ✭✭✭Lumi


    I'm going to change my passwords (again) and do a full clean up of my PC. Thanks guys, I'll post again if it resurfaces. I'm still mystified as to why/how its texting my contacts though.
    Many thanks again


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  • #7
    guil
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,534 ✭✭✭✭guil


    i guess ur usin hotmail, happened to me a few months ago, funny thing was i had just got an iphone and all my contacts were gettin emails bout some site with cheap iphones
    anyway change ur password after a full virus scan

    your goin to get a lot of emails about so and so sendin a message in windows spaces and then some emails from random addresses, i get at least 5 or 6 every week


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