Badran Posted July 22 ID:1650476 Share Posted July 22 (edited) So I recently discovered the app the other day, and I saw in one of the screenshots that it could scan for Malware on iOS devices? I was under the assumption that apps weren’t allowed to run scans on iPhones/ipads or am I misinterpreting what this means? Edited July 22 by Badran Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porthos Posted July 22 ID:1650479 Share Posted July 22 (edited) 13 minutes ago, Badran said: I saw in one of the screenshots that it could scan for Malware on iOS devices? It does not scan for malware. It is identity theft protection and VPN.https://cyrus.app/features/credit-monitoring/ Edited July 22 by Porthos Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alvarnell Posted July 22 ID:1650493 Share Posted July 22 (edited) You are correct that no 3rd party app is allowed to conduct a comprehensive malware scan, and if it could, there would be no way to remove the threat other than restoring it to factory fresh and any damage would have already have taken place. Edited July 22 by alvarnell Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators jtodd234 Posted July 23 Administrators ID:1650509 Share Posted July 23 Jason from Support here. I want to investigate what you saw @Badran to ensure it's not misleading users. Can you share where you saw this information by chance? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badran Posted July 23 Author ID:1650512 Share Posted July 23 (edited) 14 minutes ago, jtodd234 said: Jason from Support here. I want to investigate what you saw @Badran to ensure it's not misleading users. Can you share where you saw this information by chance? Hi! On the UK App Store I saw this in one of the preview images Seeing it say “Malware check” is what left me confused Edited July 23 by Badran Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff treed Posted July 23 Staff ID:1650632 Share Posted July 23 I just checked into that. Since I'm on the Corporate side of the business these days, I haven't had any involvement with the Cyrus app, so I didn't know what that was either. It sounds like this is related to a feature that can indicate whether one of your devices may be infected, by looking for leaks online that would indicate that data may have been stolen from one of your devices. This would almost certainly not be your iOS device, but would likely pertain to a Mac, Windows, or Android device that was compromised. You can initiate this search and see the results in the iOS app. I do agree this wording is not clear, and have sent some feedback to the Consumer team that we should think about some kind of wording change there. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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