Is this iphone compromised? No way to scan

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#290743 1-Dec-2021 12:14

So wife on iphone 13 latest ios, got a text message saying parcel received, clicks on link.

Opens a website that is a phishing site.

I have heard that on android you can click a link on sms and it can download malware in the background and then you lose all your money in your bank account.

So I asked her to scan the phone line you can run a malware scan on a PC.

But it turns out you can't do that on an iPhone.

Any ideas what to do next?

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#2822461 1-Dec-2021 12:17

If this was the recent phishing alert providers sent out warnings for, then I recall that iPhones were not affected at the time.

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#2822462 1-Dec-2021 12:25

Only impacted Android

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#2822518 1-Dec-2021 12:37

Tell wife not to open random web links unless absolutely 100% sure it's from a trusted source.

If it's the same text I received recently, the big give away is that it's from an http site, and the site name itself isn't even close to anything you'd usually expect (NZ post etc).

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#2822526 1-Dec-2021 12:47

I don't believe there's any way to scan and remove malware from ios as its near impossible for a non state sponsored malware to be installed on ios

Apple have built in mechanisms to alert you to potential state sponsored malware being detected so you should be good!

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#2822538 1-Dec-2021 13:26

You'll be fine

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#2822563 1-Dec-2021 14:00

Thanks guys

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#2822564 1-Dec-2021 14:01

Mehrts:
Tell wife not to open random web links unless absolutely 100% sure it's from a trusted source.

If it's the same text I received recently, the big give away is that it's from an http site, and the site name itself isn't even close to anything you'd usually expect (NZ post etc).

This is it!