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This happened to me last night. I have Windows 8.
A warning whistle came up over my sound (scared me half to death) and a pop up claiming to be from my small time “provider” warning me I had a virus, and all my private information was in risk.
I was to IMMEDIATELY call Microsoft Tech 800 number.
I did it all. I let them into my computer for 45 minutes, thought I was talking to Microsoft. They took over access of everything and drew circles around all my problems, Greek to me.
Finally, for 199.99 they could clean out the evil “virus”.
So, of course that rang my bell, and in French I got rid of them fast and called my security service. They were some foreign country I could not understand. Hung up on them and called security.
McAFEE repaired me, replaced my security and I was on the dang phone from 6:00 to 10:00 PM. Nightmare.
“replaced my security and I was on the dang phone from 6:00 to 10:00 PM”
I did that when I was starting out in the biz as an intern in L.A. just to pay the bills. Remote pc repair via Teamviewer etc. That’s how I became an “expert” in virus, crashes and rootkit damage. The difference is that we were in the US and our customers paid a large dough yearly for repairs.