Trojan horse virus pop up on iPhone when in safari

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Can anyone advise ...

Husband has just had this "you've got a Trojan horse virus click here to save your phone" pop up after googling bbc sport on safari. The poo up came first with the apparent website behind it.

He closed safari down and didn't click anything (didn't screen shot it unfortunately) cleared his browsing and suck like. Phone behaving normally, quick to respond and all apps look so seems ok and it was just a scam in the hope he'd click.

Does anyone know how these things end up popping up in the first place? I'm being quite thick here I appreciate.

Could it have been a fake bbc site on safari which just happened to come up on his google search?

Also anything general we should look out for next few days on his phone? He's on Facebook a lot could it be something from there?

We're being picked up by taxi for airport for holiday very shortly so this is very unwelcome stress

Bumping

He’s done the right thing, there (probably) never was a Trojan etc, just a pop up ‘advert’ and maybe a dodgy link.

Had he proceeded then he would have installed any virus payload - or even run dodgy ‘antivirus’ software which would have ‘found’ thousands of ‘infections’ with the aim of selling him the protection to ‘clear’ them

For some extra peace of mind he can have a go at installing Malwarebytes from the App Store
(I could link to it, but that would be defeating the object of reinforcing his good behaviour about not clicking links!)

Malwarebytes is free with optional paid extras

Hi tommika that's good to know and we'll look into that anti malware thing thanks

I've had similar but just closed it and no issues. I think it's a bullshit advert or similar. Watch your bank just in case.

Provided he hasn't jailbroken his iPhone (he would know) then he can ignore the message.

Most likely he had previously visited a 'misleading' website that displays fake messages for nefarious purposes...

So far, iOS has been extremely robust as Apple rigorously controls what you can install from the Apple App Store.

Makwarebytes is good. I have the free version. Would recommend asap. Doesn't slow things down either like some free software does.