Helpful Reminder & “Heads Up”:    Ongoing Waves of Fraudsters…

Watch out for calls from “Support” & “Microsoft”

Please, don’t be fooled by these messages or calls!  Nobody from Microsoft, Google or Yahoo will call you out of the blue to help you solve a problem.  In fact, It is quite a challenge to get anyone on the phone from these companies.  You just don’t answer the phone much when you offer Free services to a few Hundred Million people.

Beware Full Screen pop-up messages where you are stuck and have nothing but a phone number to call for “Help”! That phone number is Not Help! They explain how bad this issue is then need remote access to help “Clean-Up” your system. For a small fee of course.!

I have seen these fees inthe $Hundreds & many times also install back doors, so they can access your system anytime…

If you get a “support” call, just ask them to please take you off their list & hang up.  If you run into a stubborn pop-up & can’t close it, try hitting “Alt & F4” keys at the same time to close the window.  If that doesn’t do the trick, you can hit “Control + Alt + Delete” to launch the “Task Manager”.

Look for and “Right click” your browser (Chrome.exe, FireFox.exe  or MicrosoftEdge.exe) then choose “End process tree” for each entry that exists…

Depending on your system’s last view of the Task Manager,  you may have to click “More details” at the bottom or Click on the “Details” Tab  (This is all of the apps running)

Again, Look for and “Right click” your browser (Chrome.exe, FireFox.exe  or MicrosoftEdge.exe) then choose “End process tree” for each entry that exists…

In a worst case scenario, Press & Hold the power button for 15 seconds to power off the machine (Avoid if possible,  Very Hard on Hardware).

Don’t be Fooled by “Support”.  If you still need some assistance, feel free to call!