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• #Microsoft windows activation phone number toms free#

Now take the URL of the site which in this case is but this is true of any such malicious site.

Open a DOS window and identify the URL of the offending site generating the malicious fake popup.

#Microsoft windows activation phone number toms free#

Norton's pretty good, even this basic version that comes free with Xfinity. So, to summarize, check the box in the pop-up, then close the tab it rode in on.Īlso be careful when researching answers I did that right after it happened, and a site called helpmeremovemalware.blogspot launched Fake Scan webpage 12 Norton blocked it. I think this scam depends upon people being too scared to turn off the computer if they can't close the window, and they panic and call the number. I checked my Norton, no access attempts during that time. So I again checked the box, but went this time went up to the tab and was able to close it. I checked it and the popup did close after that, but came right back. I had done a forced shutdown last time this time, I noticed there was a checkbox in the corner of the popup that would prevent future dialogs. I just got one today first experienced it last month. But should I be worried about any bad stuff on my computer now? I ask especially because one of the of the top results of a search of that number is to "" and recommends something called "Plumbytes" to "Remove 1-87 Pop up!" Do I need to do anything? Scam on top of scam? I used my phone's browser to look up the phone number, and yes, all signs point to a scam. I have no intention of calling that number. I assumed it was a scam, so wrote the number down and did a forced shutdown. I couldn't close the pop up window or click on any of the other windows that were open on my computer. So I just got a pop up page with an audio warning and a screen that looked like a pretty good replica of a microsoft screen telling me that my computer had been BLOCKED because it was infected, etc., etc.