Source: Justin Pot, HowToGeek.com, July 4th, 2018
Those pop-ups that slow down PCs and tell you to call “Microsoft” at a sketchy 1-800 number are back, thanks to an newly exploited browser bug.
Chrome and Firefox users are both reportedly vulnerable to the attack, which disguises itself as a legitimate error message. The bug exploited here was thought to be patched, but scammers seem to have found an new way to trigger the bug.
So your computer is completely crashed, and there’s a phone number on the screen that promises to fix it.
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