I have a virus hacking my email

My email just started getting hacked a few days ago. I havent been on the laptop in weeks so it has to be coming from the mobile devices.
I changed my email password and now my phone and ipad are constantly asking for a new password without me trying to access the email account.
Any ideas on how I can get rid of this without doing a total restore?

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My email just started getting hacked a few days ago. I havent been on the laptop in weeks so it has to be coming from the mobile devices.
I changed my email password and now my phone and ipad are constantly asking for a new password without me trying to access the email account.
Any ideas on how I can get rid of this without doing a total restore?
If your email was compromised, deleting and reinstalling on the iPad won't do a **** thing. The problem isn't on your iPad.

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There is no anti-virus for the iPad because, as of now, there is no known virus. It's not the machine itself that's infected but, in this case, the webmail/mailbox that's infected. Very possibly the mail server the ISP uses.
iOS is its own separate operating system. Stuff that runs on PC's won't run on Macs and won't run on OS....in fact none of them will run on each other. You can't put a mac program on a PC and you can't run an App on a Mac.
However, while they can't get viruses, malware and browser hijacks do seem to happen. get a cookie from a 'naughty' place on your device and you'll be served ads that come from that 'naughty' place. they are also just as vulnerable to sites being hacked as any browser (such as a recent example of people that'd use google but instead of getting results for....Gardening for example, all the results would be directed towards virus and malware sites. It's not the iPad that was hacked, it's the google page.)
In the case cited above there is likely nothing wrong in the iPad itself, but a mail sitting on a mail server was able to make things happen.
Likely as more and more users catch onto popular virus techniques (like that pesky e-mail lotto promising me millions or that poor Nigerian Prince that's STILL trying to give me his money), the miscreants keep coming up with other ways to spread their junk. And that other way very well could be unopened mail or unopened attachments maliciously 'zombieing' a mailbox.
For the OP, delete the mail from your device, choose to delete it from the server (depends on if you have your mail set up to delete from server when deleted from device or if it just sits out there until you delete it with your computer) and you should be okay.
This is kinda of when using pure webmail can be a good thing. For example I use Yahoo. I dont' pay for the pop 3 version so I dont' download anything. My mail stays out on yahoo's servers and there's nothing on my computer. I do, apparently, download it onto the iPad, but most of the bad things stay in my spam folder that don't download. My PC is a bit safer because those attachments are never downloaded. If I wanted to do the same with my iPad, then I'd not use the mail app, I'd only access Yahoo via the web and I'd never download anything.
So, you really can't (as of now and as of anyone knowing) get a virus ON your iPad. But things accessed by it are just as vulnerable as anything else.

Do I have a virus in my email?

Do I have a virus in my email?
A mail message I forwarded to a friend with a Mac contained a warning that stated: "is a web application which is attached to a mail message. Are you sure you want to open it? ATT53556133.HTM" She didn't open it. The message I forwarded did not have any attachments to it except my logo.
I also sent a regular mail message to another friend (Windows user) where the body of the message was delivered blank. When I checked in my send box, the message I sent did, indeed, have words written in the body of the message so I know I didn't make the mistake of sending a blank email.
Recently, I sent a mail to someone using Hotmail. The message came back to me as undeliverable because Hotmail was showing 'name mining behavior'.
Putting these three things together in the space of two days, makes me wonder if I have a virus. If so, what do I do about it?
Thanks to anyone who can help!

If you compose a message as Rich Text, some receiving email applications will show that text as an HTML attachment rather than showing the text as part of the body. This will always happen if the receiving email app can't handle HTML messages. For best compatibility, set the Mail Composing preferences to compose messages as Plain Text.
And no, you almost certainly don't have a virus. There have to date been no confirmed reports of a true virus or worm infecting Mac OS X other than the Word Macro virus that could infect early versions of Microsoft Word for Mac.
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Thanks for the question. After reviewing your post, it sounds like you did not receive a reset email. I would recommend that you read this article, it may be able to help you isolate or resolve the issue.
If you didn't receive your Apple ID verification or reset email - Apple Support
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
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