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'Microsoft Warning Alert Malicious Pornographic Spyware/Riskware' Pop-Ups

Posted: July 13, 2017

The 'Microsoft Warning Alert Malicious Pornographic Spyware/Riskware' pop-ups are part of an online tactic whose goal is to trick users into believing that their computers have been infected by spyware/riskware, and they need to take action immediately unless they want to risk losing their credit card details, login credentials, personal conversations and other information. The contents of the 'Microsoft Warning Alert Malicious Pornographic Spyware/Riskware' pop-ups may vary slightly, but they may have the following things in common:

  • They show up when users browse low-quality websites.
  • They are placed on top of a fraudulent page, which might be designed to look like the Microsoft Windows' website, or as a fake Blue Screen of Death.
  • The pop-ups may be accompanied by an audio played automatically, as well as additional pop-up alerts and messages, which might be difficult to close.
  • These pop-ups almost always include a phone number, and users are advised to call it to erase the problems as quickly as possible.

The 'Microsoft Warning Alert Malicious Pornographic Spyware/Riskware' pop-ups may often include made-up error codes such as the ones seen in thhe 'Error#0x80072ee7' Pop-Ups (also known as the '800-953-457' Pop-Ups). In addition to this, they might include various phone numbers - 800-046-5729 and 44-8000-903-274 are just some of the phone numbers we have seen accompany the 'Microsoft Warning Alert Malicious Pornographic Spyware/Riskware' pop-ups.

If users opt to trust these fraudulent messages, they may end up calling a phone number owned by the con artists behind the hoax. The con artists may then keep flooding their potential victim with false facts regarding the state of their computers, and end the call by offering the user to solve all pending problems by paying for their technical support services or purchasing an expensive software product. In both cases, the users are likely to end up spending their money on a useless service or program, since all errors and warnings that may be seen in the 'Microsoft Warning Alert Malicious Pornographic Spyware/Riskware' pop-ups are entirely made-up.

Keep in mind that seeing the 'Microsoft Warning Alert Malicious Pornographic Spyware/Riskware' pop-ups in your Web browser may not be a symptom of a threat infection. Often, this unpleasant issue might be the result of a visit to a low-quality page, which has been paid to promote fraudulent content like the one seen in these messages. Simply close the pop-ups and the tab containing them, or fully restart the Web browser to dispose of the misleading warnings.

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