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646-542-1676 PIN: 119380
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Virus Removal
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Ever seen one of these? One minute you're surfing the web, next minute a siren goes off, scaring you and your family half to death! And worse, it just locks up your browser! RELAX. It is probably just some scammer using a 'redirect' attack to entice you to call him, and save you. Costing you multiple hundreds of dollars, in many cases. FEAR NOT! Here are a few simple steps to eliminating this problem AND preventing it in the future:
1. Force-close your browser. For Windows, either right-click on the taskbar icon and select 'close,' or ctrl-alt-del and close it that way. For Macs, command-Q or if that does not work, option-command-esc, then select your browser to close it.
2. Reopen your browser and before you do ANYTHING else, clear your history and cookies. There are frankly too many browsers to list all of the different steps here for each one, but if you need assistance, we would be glad to help!
3. Problem solved! Now for the prevention. Ditch the Edge or Internet Explorer browsers, first off. They are buggy and are extremely vulnerable to those types of attacks. Chrome is a good alternative, but ALSO prone to those events, as it is one of the most widely-used browsers. We recommend Opera for all systems, or Firefox if you do not like Opera.
4. Install a good adblocker and popup blocker on your browser! This will prevent 99.999% of those types of things happening again. Please feel free to call us for our favourites for each browser.
That's it! It's a very simple problem, and should not cost a couple hundred to solve. Please pass this information to family and friends (especially the elderly!), so they will not be scammed.
And finally, if there is anything with computers or other electronic devices that you need done or even if you have a question! Call or text us. We care about you and your systems.
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