’877-646-9990′ Pop-Ups

The '877-646-9990' pop-ups are phishing attacks – fraudulent pop-up messages that may mislead you into providing computer access, money or data. While the '877-646-9990' pop-ups imitate the superficial appearance of Windows error messages, they may launch themselves without any respect for the nature of your OS or any system issues that may or may not be impeding it. After contact with such an attack, malware experts encourage closing your browser, rebooting your computer and using appropriate security tools for removing the '877-646-9990' pop-ups (and any related threats).

The Windows Warning You Don't Need Windows to See

Even though con artists may be quick about picking up on widespread anxieties, such as fear over computer problems, they sometimes may be equally careless about how they choose to exploit those fears. The '877-646-9990' pop-ups are another example of pop-up tactics pretending to be warnings from the Microsoft's Windows OS. However, unlike most such tactics, the '877-646-9990' pop-ups have a well-documented history of loading in non-Windows machines, including ones running Linux.

The '877-646-9990' pop-ups are currently launching themselves through the Detected-newx.com website, a newly registered domain operating since the last month of 2015. Even with such a short lifespan, the site already has accumulated widespread reports of loading the '877-646-9990' pop-ups, with the inclusion of additional scripts that block the Web surfer from closing or minimizing the browser window. The alert text included in the '877-646-9990' pop-ups is a copy-pasted message from previous attacks, implying that threats have gained access to information, like your account passwords.

Like most tactics of the same type, the '877-646-9990' pop-ups insist that computer users call a hotline for support on how to unlock their computers. Con artists then may ask for access to their machines, sell fake PC repair services, or collect their credit card information.

Wiping Away a System Alert for the Wrong System

The '877-646-9990' pop-ups are indiscriminate about which browser they target and may include equally invasive content for users of Firefox, Chrome or Edge. Pop-up blockers, advertisement blockers, and script disabling tools all are useful ways of blocking threatening pop-up attacks. When those precautions fail to stop the '877-646-9990' pop-ups, you should be aware of appropriate keyboard controls for terminating pop-ups without using your mouse cursor to interact with their potentially harmful content. Corrupted sites like detected-newx.com also can be blocked manually, or blocked on the fly by many anti-malware products.

Even though con artists are eager to create new variants of tactics like the '877-646-9990' pop-ups, most of the damage caused by these attacks is wholly preventable through self-education. Microsoft never uses browser pop-ups as ways of promoting service hotlines, and any alerts recommending such services always can be assumed of being fraudulent. In spite of that, malware experts continue suggesting subjecting any PC exposed to the '877-646-9990' pop-ups to appropriate anti-malware scans, to account for less obvious threats that could be delivered through a browser, besides a simple misleading message.