Does my phone have malware on it?

[hawwie_4]

Anyone know why Microsoft would text me a link to windows phone.com and include a security code in the text message?

 

[anon(9057135)]

Anyone know why Microsoft would text me a link to windows phone.com and include a security code in the text message?

Marketing I believe. Either for Money, or The AD was leaked through a trusted advertiser

 

[Legoboyii]

@hawwie_4
If you had two step authentication with your phone set up
Its possible someone tried to login to your account
Just change the pass and you'll be set.

 

[anon(9057135)]

I just contacted Microsoft about this.

 

[hawwie_4]

I just contacted Microsoft about this.

Why did you contact Microsoft?

 

[hawwie_4]

@hawwie_4
If you had two step authentication with your phone set up
Its possible someone tried to login to your account
Just change the pass and you'll be set.

I checked my recent logins the only activity I saw was from IPs registered to my devices

 

[anon(9057135)]

Why did you contact Microsoft?

So they can find the Market Advertiser and remove the ad from the servers.

 

[hawwie_4]

Should I go ahead and change my password?

 

[hawwie_4]

Could it be caused by me changing sync settings for my passwords and having a 2- step/ authenticator set up on my profile?

 

[anon(7901790)]

Re: Lumia Icon Virus Warning

Help! MSN sports brought me to this website for an article, while reading a popup on my phone said "warning your phone has a virus" my browser opened another tab and brought me to this thing for the Google play store. Does my phone have malware on it? If so how can I check if I do and remove the malware?

Did it look like this? If so, ignore it. It's annoying, but harmless.

 

[gpobernardo]

Re: Lumia Icon Virus Warning

Help! MSN sports brought me to this website for an article, while reading a popup on my phone said "warning your phone has a virus" my browser opened another tab and brought me to this thing for the Google play store. Does my phone have malware on it? If so how can I check if I do and remove the malware?

It's just an advertisement designed to provoke you into buying their product... just like how tv ads tell you how fat, how malnourished or how poor you are. Just ignore the ad and be at peace in knowing that there are no known viruses for Windows Phones. Besides, only a sophisticated anti-virus software can detect viruses remotely... not some sports webpage.

 

[Ruined]

Could it be caused by me changing sync settings for my passwords and having a 2- step/ authenticator set up on my profile?

yes

 

[rollindice]

ignore link , you good, chill bro, we have safest mobile OS ,PERIOD!

 

[wayn1ak]

Re: Lumia Icon Virus Warning

Another reason why I'm staying away from Android and will only go to iOS if I really really really have to

 

[realwarder]

No Malware is possible.

 

[Mr Lebowski]

Stop visiting porn sites !

 

[TechAbstract]

Go to any website you want to on Windows Phone. You are safe.

 

[anon(8150199)]

Re: Lumia Icon Virus Warning

I came across the same situation on my Lumia 928. I was on the Facebook app and clicked an article which opened in IE. While reading the article, a banner that is native to the WP OS popped up warning me of malware/virus. It's actually concerning because it does not look like an ad on the webpage, it's actually a black banner similar to how Cortana notifies you of a calendar event!

That's a JavaScript popup. It appears native to any platform.

 

[Funky Cricket]

It's called scareware, it's why there are botnets in the 10's of millions in western countries. People get all this tech and have no idea how it works, they will believe anything that pops up that looks remotely like they should believe it (and by remotely I mean, not even close to remotely, but you know, all pop ups look the same).

It is the BEST tool for hackers to get machines infected and the BEST way for pen testers to successfully get into secure networks. Never click the X on those in a browser, it's just a link to install, right click on the task bar and chose to close the open window that is supporting it.

 

[awilliams1701]

Re: Lumia Icon Virus Warning

As a web developer I can reproduce that exact thing in less than a minute. It would take longer to type all of that, then to actually make it show up like that. In javascript there is a command called alert(message); The variable message contains that text and it will show up EXACTLY like that (because that's probably exactly what caused that in the first place).

Did it look like this? If so, ignore it. It's annoying, but harmless.

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