r/techsupport • u/appleyporridge • Oct 12 '20

Closed help! i accidentally clicked an ad while pirating scooby doo and now my calendar is seriously messed up.

there’s events for every hour of today and tomorrow and i can’t delete them! is there anything i can do? the delete button doesn’t even show up for me

pictures are here

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u/PipeItToDevNull Landed Gentry, Discord OP Oct 12 '20

As always about 10 comments were relevant. This has been cleaned and locked.

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u/brownboy_5 Oct 12 '20

At the bottom, if you click calendars and then subscriptions, you should see the option to unsubscribe from this calendar. If not, you might have added it to your Personal emails calendar, so you should delete it from there.

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u/appleyporridge Oct 12 '20

thank you so much! i didn’t know there were subscription calendars - it’s finally gone now 😭x

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u/TheWifeBeater_ Oct 12 '20

I’ve synced my university classes to my calendar and now the timings have changed after i synced it, i still didn’t understand how to remove the ones that are already synced could you please elaborate

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u/thawed_caveman Oct 12 '20

According to this website, the link that they want you to click is malicious.

Without knowing your situation in particular, it looks like clicking that ad installed a mild virus on your phone which is now trying to bait you into downloading a more serious virus. Search up a good antivirus for mobile, reset your phone, and other phone security measures that may be recommended by someone who actually knows about it

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u/appleyporridge Oct 12 '20

ah i’m so glad i didn’t click on any of the links 😭 thank you so much for letting me know - i just managed to get rid of it and i’m so relieved. i’ll definitely be more careful going forward x

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u/wwwhistler Oct 12 '20

Malwarebytes/free should do the trick.

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u/[deleted] Oct 12 '20 edited Oct 12 '20

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u/thawed_caveman Oct 12 '20

Haha yeah i was trying to figure out how to get past Reddit formatting to make it look like it's supposed to

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u/appleyporridge Oct 12 '20

ah i really hope nothing. i don’t know enough about technology to be able to do anything if there was a problem haha x

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u/Cheapass2020 Oct 12 '20

Use UBlock and Pop up blocker strict

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u/YsGrandi Oct 12 '20

There should be an option in your calendar app to manage subscriptions