Ipad safari pop up said I had a trojan and that I should scan for viruses

I was browsing using Safari on my ipad, and a pop up window that looked like it was an Apple window said something about a trojan and needing to scan. It would not let me close out the window in Safari, so I clicked on the thing and then it said it was infected, and I was then able to close out the window. I panicked, so I went to settings and turned off Wifi so it hopefully wouldn't do anything to my other devices (iphone and my toshiba laptop). I'm not tech savvy so I don't know if I really have a virus now, or if it's bogus. Does anyone know what I should do?

jpozuk wrote:
I still remember 7 or 8 years ago, when an apple genius told me my ipod had a virus. It was that or admit there was a problem covered under warranty.
Oh, goodness! How awful.
There was absolutely nothing wrong with your suggestions. Everyone has different tolerances for risk. Clearing history and cookies isn't a bad idea at all.

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