For what it is worth.. This morning I turned on my Windows 10 Desktop computer and once on line the screen flashed.. Didn't pay much attention but then about 15 seconds later noticed that the Windows Defender Virus and Threat Detection program had been disabled on bottom tray.. within 30 seconds a very official Windows Alert appeared on my screen (I immediately knew it was a scam).. The person talking had a foreign accent, and warned me about this / that and if I shut the computer off, everything would be lost.. AGAIN BS.. I did notice that it would now allow the screen / mouse curser to go anywhere near the Red X to close the page.. It was locked within the confines of their message block.. I just unplugged the computer, restarted it and all is fine.. Just wanted to see if anybody else experienced this today and JUST BEWARE..

Now....run a vigorous "full virus scan."Maybe with whatever you have installed and certainly with "Malwarebytes."

i had something similar happen on our Win7 machine a few months ago. no voice just the flashing screen. i just turned off the PC, waited a bit and fired it up. and we received a call a few months before that incident. fellow claimed to be from Microsoft and asked me to go to my PC. i played with him a bit telling him we didn't have a computer. what number did you call? that's not our number. what name are you calling? that sounds like the people who we bought the house from. what's the problem with their computer? really? wow. i might have their new number, i'll go look. hang on. i put the phone down. when i came back in a couple of minutes the mook had hung up.

Didn't pay much attention but then about 15 seconds later noticed that the Windows Defender Virus and Threat Detection program had been disabled on bottom tray.. within 30 seconds a very official Windows Alert appeared on my screen (I immediately knew it was a scam).. The person talking had a foreign accent, and warned me about this / that and if I shut the computer off, everything would be lost.. You turned on your desktop, went online, then all of a sudden anti virus is disabled - and then someone is talking to you? :H

Down here in the heart of overpopulation, we get those once a month. More frequent is the call to our landline with basically the same thing. "Give them your online address and they'll fix it for you for $20. Or your Windows license is about to end send mega bucks for a new update and lifetime license.As suggested, I turn it off and run my VP.

2012Coleman wrote: Didn't pay much attention but then about 15 seconds later noticed that the Windows Defender Virus and Threat Detection program had been disabled on bottom tray.. within 30 seconds a very official Windows Alert appeared on my screen (I immediately knew it was a scam).. The person talking had a foreign accent, and warned me about this / that and if I shut the computer off, everything would be lost.. You turned on your desktop, went online, then all of a sudden anti virus is disabled - and then someone is talking to you? :Hwhat's so hard to understand about that?

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D_E_Bishop
Explorer
May 06, 2019
Down here in the heart of overpopulation, we get those once a month. More frequent is the call to our landline with basically the same thing. "Give them your online address and they'll fix it for you for $20. Or your Windows license is about to end send mega bucks for a new update and lifetime license.

As suggested, I turn it off and run my VP.
2012Coleman
Explorer II
May 06, 2019
Didn't pay much attention but then about 15 seconds later noticed that the Windows Defender Virus and Threat Detection program had been disabled on bottom tray.. within 30 seconds a very official Windows Alert appeared on my screen (I immediately knew it was a scam).. The person talking had a foreign accent, and warned me about this / that and if I shut the computer off, everything would be lost..

You turned on your desktop, went online, then all of a sudden anti virus is disabled - and then someone is talking to you? :H
rk911
Explorer
May 06, 2019
i had something similar happen on our Win7 machine a few months ago. no voice just the flashing screen. i just turned off the PC, waited a bit and fired it up.

and we received a call a few months before that incident. fellow claimed to be from Microsoft and asked me to go to my PC. i played with him a bit telling him we didn't have a computer. what number did you call? that's not our number. what name are you calling? that sounds like the people who we bought the house from. what's the problem with their computer? really? wow. i might have their new number, i'll go look. hang on. i put the phone down. when i came back in a couple of minutes the mook had hung up.
downtheroad
Explorer
May 06, 2019
Now....run a vigorous "full virus scan."
Maybe with whatever you have installed and certainly with "Malwarebytes."

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