Highly unlikely anything’s installed itself on your phone, another way of removing it is to tap the bottom right icon for managing tabs in Safari and close the tab with the advert _ Regards Sam Mullen
+44 (0)7747778022 <tel://+447747778022> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> www.macambulance.com <http://www.macambulance.com/> MacAmbulance Ltd. Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration number 8466597 This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and delete the email immediately. > On 4 Oct 2022, at 09:05, 'andrew lancaster' via Sussex Mac User Group > <[email protected]> wrote: > > It was a Wordle clone - one of the many “unlimited” variants. > > Hope it hasn’t actually done anything to my phone! Though it seems ok now. > > Thank you. > > Andrew. > > Sent from my iPhone > >> On 4 Oct 2022, at 09:03, Sam - MacAmbulance <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Was that Wordle on the NY Times website, or a wordle-clone? Sounds like a >> malicious advert which slipped through the cracks of whichever website you >> were using’s content policy >> _ >> Regards >> Sam Mullen >> >> +44 (0)7747778022 <tel://+447747778022> >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> www.macambulance.com <http://www.macambulance.com/> >> >> MacAmbulance Ltd. >> Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development >> >> MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration >> number 8466597 >> >> This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain >> privileged or confidential information. >> >> If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and delete >> the email immediately. >> >> >>> On 4 Oct 2022, at 08:55, 'andrew lancaster' via Sussex Mac User Group >>> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi. I was playing a Wordle game when I suddenly got a message to say that >>> my phone had been hacked and the App Store opened. >>> Closing safari and re-opening brought up the same page. I turned of the >>> phone then restarted it - safari still brought up the same page. >>> I opened settings > safari and cleared data etc. but it still does it. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>. >>> To view this discussion on the web, visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/EC5A7CC4-E137-4D36-BE74-A7A89E1743F0%40mac.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/EC5A7CC4-E137-4D36-BE74-A7A89E1743F0%40mac.com>. >>> <image0.png> >>> >>> Any ideas what I do next? >>> >>> Thanks >>> >>> Andrew. >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>. >>> To view this discussion on the web, visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/EC5A7CC4-E137-4D36-BE74-A7A89E1743F0%40mac.com >>> >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/EC5A7CC4-E137-4D36-BE74-A7A89E1743F0%40mac.com>. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> To view this discussion on the web, visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/F25D98A8-7620-4F79-96A4-9AB301CBAD30%40macambulance.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/F25D98A8-7620-4F79-96A4-9AB301CBAD30%40macambulance.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To view this discussion on the web, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/DDEBE950-9524-4C89-862A-0FABB0A9345C%40mac.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/DDEBE950-9524-4C89-862A-0FABB0A9345C%40mac.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/smug/B8DC1C94-A94E-4B6B-8F6A-30C3B6C988E9%40macambulance.com.
