GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - A message pops up on your computer: “Your computer has been locked up.” “A scare tactic on this fake pop-up that looks like a virus,” says Nathan Drager, president of Quantum ...
HOUSTON — If you are having a problem with your phone or computer, many of us call the company to try to resolve things. However, before you look them up, one woman has a warning. It all started when ...
NEW YORK — A Brooklyn woman was scammed out of $100,000 in an elaborate scheme involving a frozen computer, an in-person meeting and a secret code word. As police search for the alleged scammer, the ...
Microsoft is introducing a new scareware sensor for the Microsoft Edge web browser, which helps detect scam pages more ...
In an email we received from Janet D., she shared her recent unsettling experience. Here’s what she described: "I received a pop-up that froze my computer and read, ‘Access to this system is blocked ...
You're browsing different websites when suddenly a pop-up window declares, “Your computer was locked” and tells you to call “Windows engineering” at a toll ...