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‘855-637-3156’ Pop-Ups

Posted: March 21, 2016

The '855-637-3156' security alerts are not the type of warnings you should trust. These pop-ups are misleading because they mention non-existing infections. The purpose of its activity is to trick you and make you dial bogus specialists for assistance. The alleged experts who you will reach if you make the mistake to dial 855-637-3156 are con artists. They will, for sure, attempt to take your money. Most commonly, they will demand a hefty commission for their services although they will not help you in any way. Unfortunately, the presence of these misleading alerts may mean that you are infected. Some people report they saw the deceptive pop-ups on dubious sites. If you have landed on such page after clicking on some corrupt ad, then your system may be clean. However, if your Web client opens it automatically or the domain becomes your homepage, you are certainly infected with a browser hijacker. This parasite may take full control of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. The developers of similar harmful tools may spread them in bundles with other programs to evade the attention of the user. The main component may be freeware, which may be safe. Unless you run the setup process via the 'Advanced' menu, you may load additional untrustworthy apps like this browser hijacker. The extension could generate misleading warnings all the time. It also may freeze your whole browser, thus making you assume the alerts are legit. The parasite may cause automatic redirections to various corrupted Web pages that may attempt to deploy additional threats. The pop-ups may claim that there is a missing .net framework file. According to them, this issue indicates an infection with a powerful threat, which may allow hackers to collect information from you. Just after noticing the first messages that ask you to call 855-637-3156, you should perform a full system scan to delete all present parasites.

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