Thank you for the replies. My friend has been deleting all his spam immediately, making sure not to click on anything, and deleting his browser history daily. This seemed to be working but now he is having new, possibly worse, problems. Last night he got a text from that had a link for an adult hookup site. He didn't click on it and doesn't really know if this is related to his other issues. This morning when he picked his phone up off the charger, there was a message that said his phone needed an update (while still locked). He clicked on the right side button and the phone started downloading the update or whatever it was. He immediately turned off his phone. The phone did this once more when a while later but hasn't since. Do you think he has a virus on his phone?