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Spent a little time at my mother in law's fixing a weird problem. She apparently clicked on a poisoned link which put up a scary warning about her computer being attacked by a virus, showed her a number from 'Microsoft' to call and locked up Firefox. If you shut down Firefox and start it up again it goes right back to that screen.
Yeah... no. Although I was tempted to call the number and give the scammer a runaround and waste their time.
Fortunately, Chrome was also installed on the system and we were able to download a fresh install of Firefox. CCleaner was used to uninstall the old one and clean out the Registry and any other funny bits that might have been left behind. After running Malwarebytes and a fresh install of Firefox all was well.
I'm so glad I'm a linux user.
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Yeah... no. Although I was tempted to call the number and give the scammer a runaround and waste their time.
Fortunately, Chrome was also installed on the system and we were able to download a fresh install of Firefox. CCleaner was used to uninstall the old one and clean out the Registry and any other funny bits that might have been left behind. After running Malwarebytes and a fresh install of Firefox all was well.
I'm so glad I'm a linux user.
-m
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