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    Just wanted to put this out there, as my son's phone has crashed and none of the fixes seem to be working for it. (mind you he is not home right now and will not be for a week so we are chatting through snapchat to fix..

    These are all the solutions I have found online! Hope to help someone that is or can be effected by this (also the message is a specific string of symbols and Arabic characters, (I will not post that part)
    Please go into you Iphone settings : Settings -> Notifications -> Messages -> Show Previews -> OFF (gray switch, NOT green). I you haven't gotten the virus yet, this will prevent it.

    "It is sent in unicode and when the phone revives it it opens it up and try's to put it into a notification. The notification system try's to show it but as its not been coded right it causes the OS to freeze and thinks its an attack and closes the system down.
    This could have been a thing done in testing to make sure that the crash system works.
    Oh and by the way it doesn't cause a complete crash on JailBroken devices as it causes safe mode to start
    It also crashes the watch as it use the same system"

    One fix for it is to send a message to every contact who you have sent it to or who has sent it to you so the last message sent to or from them is not the offending message, I was able to do this from Messages on my mac. This then allows Messages on my phone to open correctly.

    Another fix: If Messages was opened to the conversation list view, the app will crash when you attempt to open it. You can fix this by having someone send you a message or by sending a message to yourself. There are several options for sending a message to yourself, including sending yourself a message via Siri or through the Share sheet in any app.

    To send yourself a message in Siri, tell Siri to "Send a message to myself." Siri will open up a dialogue where you can give her a quick message like "Fix" that'll be sent to your iPhone to clear away the malicious message.

    Alternatively, you can open an app like Notes, craft a quick note, and use the Share option (the little document with an arrow) to message it to yourself. Sending yourself something though the share sheet of an app opens a new messages window where you can enter your own contact information.

    You can get imessages working again with the steps such as sending your self a text using siri, etc., however, if the text still shows in a previous text, you can still activate the bug by simply scrolling down to a previous text that shows the text. Here's the work around (WARNING: you will lose all/most of your recent texts).

    1. Go to settings-messages
    2. Scroll down to Message History, and choose Keep Messages for 30 days.
    3. Choose Delete when asked to Delete Older Messages.
    4. Back out and go to General-Date & Time.
    5. Turn off Set Automatically (if turned on). Set Date to at least 31 days into the future.
    6. Back out and go back to settings-messages.
    7. Scroll down to Message History, and choose Keep Messages for 30 days (again).
    8. Again, Choose Delete when asked to Delete Older Messages.

    At this point, any messages within the last 30 days that had the text causing the bug will be deleted. You can now return all of your settings back to their original settings (Message History, Time & Date, etc.)

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    Default Re: IPhone virus

    Thank you for sharing this tina! I hope your son's phone gets fixed







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    While we're on the topic of phone safety, I'll share a story from my very close girlfriend that I think is important for girls to hear, especially in our industry where Twitter/Instagram/Facebook/email all syncs and can have security breeches fairly easily.

    She had an emotionally controlling and abusive ex-boyfriend she finally kicked out (restraining order, police, court and all). Within a few days, she received a text message from a burner email (smart phones can receive these and this is how many scam 'you won a trip' texts end up on your phone with these weird .com addressed). The email was embedded with a file that didn't show up in the message, but meant the message was an MMS instead of an SMS. Because she was on wi-fi at the time, her phone automatically downloaded the message and the virus. The virus then proceeded to install several programs that logged all her text messages, contact information, emails, passwords (banking info too, since she had her bank app on her phone!) and kept asking for her phone password remotely to get further permissions. Long story short, the cops came and took a look while she was on a separate phone with her service provider. The entire thing linked right back to her crazy ex. By the looks of it, he used the burner email address to send the virus from his phone, which then synched both of their phones one way, meaning he could do everything from go through her phone to remotely turning on the speaker and listening to what she was doing!!!!

    I'm sure I haven't gotten the exact technical details of the whole situation my friend was in right, but the basic moral of the story is to go into your phone settings and turn off any settings which automatically download non-SMS texts. Much like you wouldn't open an email if you didn't know who it was from and it had an attachment, you don't want your phone to automatically do something like that for you if someone sends you a text-as-email.

    I consider this to be as important for safety as turning of geo-tagging (twitter photos ladies!). On a related note, password protecting your phone is critical, and not just in case it physically falls into the wrong person's hands. In my friend's case, her ex couldn't access a lot of her phone because she had a security pin installed on it and it was blocking him from accessing the phone until she mistakenly inputted the password after the key logger was remotely installed.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Issabelle View Post
    While we're on the topic of phone safety, I'll share a story from my very close girlfriend that I think is important for girls to hear, especially in our industry where Twitter/Instagram/Facebook/email all syncs and can have security breeches fairly easily.

    She had an emotionally controlling and abusive ex-boyfriend she finally kicked out (restraining order, police, court and all). Within a few days, she received a text message from a burner email (smart phones can receive these and this is how many scam 'you won a trip' texts end up on your phone with these weird .com addressed). The email was embedded with a file that didn't show up in the message, but meant the message was an MMS instead of an SMS. Because she was on wi-fi at the time, her phone automatically downloaded the message and the virus. The virus then proceeded to install several programs that logged all her text messages, contact information, emails, passwords (banking info too, since she had her bank app on her phone!) and kept asking for her phone password remotely to get further permissions. Long story short, the cops came and took a look while she was on a separate phone with her service provider. The entire thing linked right back to her crazy ex. By the looks of it, he used the burner email address to send the virus from his phone, which then synched both of their phones one way, meaning he could do everything from go through her phone to remotely turning on the speaker and listening to what she was doing!!!!

    I'm sure I haven't gotten the exact technical details of the whole situation my friend was in right, but the basic moral of the story is to go into your phone settings and turn off any settings which automatically download non-SMS texts. Much like you wouldn't open an email if you didn't know who it was from and it had an attachment, you don't want your phone to automatically do something like that for you if someone sends you a text-as-email.

    I consider this to be as important for safety as turning of geo-tagging (twitter photos ladies!). On a related note, password protecting your phone is critical, and not just in case it physically falls into the wrong person's hands. In my friend's case, her ex couldn't access a lot of her phone because she had a security pin installed on it and it was blocking him from accessing the phone until she mistakenly inputted the password after the key logger was remotely installed.

    OMG thank u for sharing that cause that happened to me a while ago... Even though I was able to delete the messages and not download anything, I was wondering why was I receiving those texts when I know I didn't sign up for anything. WOW!

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    You won't necessarily stop receiving the texts themselves. Those texts will be delivered the same as always but turning off the automatic download feature for multimedia messages does make it far less likely that a virus will be downloaded onto your phone without your knowledge.

    And, as with emails, never open something from someone you don't know if it registers as an MMS. Hey, might just be a harmless dick pic OR it could be some stalker trying to get a hold of all your personal info. And let's be honest ladies--we keep a lot of shit on our smart phones. If you see a text and the 'from' info is some random string of letters/numbers ending in a .org or .com address, assume it's an email sent to a phone number (email sent as text message) and delete that shit.

    Most of these random 'you won a trip!!!!' scam texts are just the scammer sending it to as many numbers as possible, just like scammers who call people to try to get them to send money (anyone else hear about that recent string of calls from people claiming to be the IRS and demanding 'back taxes'? Yeah--terrifying shit). But just in case, be careful and don't open that stuff. Delete and turn off auto download.

    Stay safe bbs!


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    Extra info can on cell phone viruses and how they spread can be found here: http://electronics.howstuffworks.com...one-virus2.htm

    It's basic stuff when you read it, but it's something I'd never even considered worrying about until my friend's psycho ex happened!


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