Technically it is often said that iOS is virus free and therefore you should not worry, however, criminals tend to scrutinize their brains well in search of the most effective and not the most elegant way to bother us with their rubbish. The so-called "calendar virus" is the latest hackers innovation that affects your iPhone, but don't worry, we show you how you can easily remove it. Do not worry because it is not serious, it will not take more than five minutes to leave your iPhone as new and of course, your iPhone has not suffered severe damage for more than a notification tells you.
What is the calendar virus?
As hackers find strong restrictions on iOS security, they have mostly opted for less harmful but equally invasive options for mobile phones. In this case we are talking about the popular calendar virus. However, we are going to start by reassuring you, and technically this is not a virus, and therefore iOS is still the safest mobile operating system on the market, but is a simple adware that takes advantage of the calendar system to repeatedly bother us .
Even though you are suffering from the calendar virus, as long as you have not followed the instructions or accessed their website, you need not fear for your privacy or the security of your iPhone. We are facing the grossest and most inelegant way of doing "spam" since what it does is add a calendar to our phone taking advantage of the fact that we have inadvertently accepted any notification about it.
As we said, This does not allow criminals to access information on our mobile phone and therefore is not capable by itself of damaging our iPhone.
How does the calendar virus work?
Essentially what this so-called virus does is subscribe to a calendar, This will give us unwanted notifications that, due to the content of the text, will not seem like simple calendar notifications and it will try to redirect us to web pages of dubious origin where they will try to get our data or simply inflate us to meaningless advertising.
These calendar subscriptions are camouflaged among events that are sent to us by email and that we accept either by mistake or because we have mistaken them for email we trust. Because It is important that you do not accept invitations in your email without first checking that the sender is known.
This calendar, once we have accepted the subscription, will send us push notifications constantly from its server, And that is why it may seem so annoying that the first thing that makes us think is that we are dealing with a real virus. However, it is important to neither accept nor decline the invitation, because that way the server will detect that you are in front of an active iCloud account and will proceed with invasive advertising and blackmail.
So far we have already known in depth what this misnamed calendar virus consists of and how it works, now it is time to eradicate it.
How to remove the calendar virus
Apple is aware of the annoyances that these malicious calendar subscriptions are causing among its users, so much so that it has published a video-tutorial on its YouTube channel that we leave you below and in which You can see how to unsubscribe from these undesirable calendars to stop receiving advertising.
However, we are also going to explain to you what are the steps that you must follow in a guided way so that absolutely nothing escapes you, they are the following:
- Enter the Settings application of your iPhone
- Scroll down to the "Calendar" section of your iPhone settings
- Click on the "Accounts" option and once inside the "Subscribed Calendars" option will appear.
- Enter the option "Subscribed Calendars" and delete them by clicking on "Delete account"
That's how easy you will be able to get rid of the well-known calendar virus in a single stroke. Considering how annoying this is, you might never have imagined how easy it is to eliminate the virus from the calendar in just a few seconds, but once again we teach you how to get the most out of your iPhone in the fastest way.
Check that you have not installed profiles
Another way to add us to unwanted calendar subscriptions is precisely through profiles and their facilities. This is common for those users who use "Beta" versions of the Operating System or who install applications outside of the iOS App Store, so we recommend that you follow the following steps:
- Enter the Settings application of your iPhone
- Go to the «General» section
Once there, browse the menu and check that the "Profiles" section does not appear, in which case it will be good news because you do not have any type of profile installed and therefore it is impossible for you to have adware due to the installation of malicious profiles.
In case you have the "Profiles" section active enter it and check that you know where all of them come from. Digital Certificates (which we have shown you how to install) are also a source for installing profiles, so be careful and don't delete your Digital Certificate by mistake. In the same way, to delete these profiles you simply have to click on it and select that option that appears with red letters.
In this way, the calendar virus has become the easiest and most common way that these wretches have found to annoy us, try to obtain our information and above all alter the tranquility of iPhone users, who have precisely selected this Operating System for be the safest option on the market, and this type of invasive advertising is usually more common on the Android scene. However, tWe remind you that the calendar virus can also appear on your iPad and the steps to eliminate it will be exactly the same as those mentioned above, as well as it can arise on Mac systems.