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Scam is still going I got the popup last week.Pressed the power button for 10 secs and it was gone.
Turning off the power to make the pop-up go away doesn't fix malware potentially hiding on your computer. As explained by Turco earlier in this thread, he suggested how to run a scan to see what it comes up with.
Someone from the Best Buy Geek Squad told me to hit Control + Shift + Escape to get to task manager to go to end the particular task that's running the virus ...works for me every time...
This is over a year old. And anyone that does not know how to recover from such common malware attempts needs to get off the computer.
I also have done support for over 30 years. One of the best tricks the hackers do is once they're on the PC they the uncheck the setting for Show Desktop icons. Then even if the person being hacked gets the PC to shutdown they will call me in a panic because they have nothing on their desktop.
I also have done support for over 30 years. One of the best tricks the hackers do is once they're on the PC they the uncheck the setting for Show Desktop icons. Then even if the person being hacked gets the PC to shutdown they will call me in a panic because they have nothing on their desktop.
Well Microsoft does not send security messages through popups on a web pages basic PC knowledge you should of known immediately.All security alerts will come in internally not on a web page your surfing. They got you your exactly who they were hoping to catch.That you would see the popup and take it seriously they also would of locked you on the page making it seem even worse.If its a popup its a scam learn to recognize them.This is a common internet scam and how many get caught answering a popup..
This thread is more than a year old and at this point, it is like beating on a dead horse.
?? still works for me even when control/alt/delete doesn't...
What still works for you?
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Originally Posted by LittleDolphin
Someone from the Best Buy Geek Squad told me to hit Control + Shift + Escape to get to task manager to go to end the particular task that's running the virus ...works for me every time...
This?
There is nothing special about opening Task Manager but more importantly. This so-called hack/virus is actually nothing more than a glorified "pop up". If all you see on your screen is something similar to the attacked image, then your computer is not infected or hacked, just yet. You call the number or interact with the pop-up then things change. All you are doing is killing the browser session which makes the fake warning screen go away.
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