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‘Live-online-support.info’ Pop-Ups

Posted: December 1, 2015

You should not let the name of the site Live-online-support.info deceive you that it is a real cyber security platform. This page may be threatening because the warnings it display are fake. The domain is involved in a hoax that is quite popular nowadays. The specialists call this tactic 'fake technical support.' Live-online-support.info doesn't contain any threat, but this fact is hardly any consolation. The point of this site is to make you contact some bogus IT experts who will only pretend to help you. They will not clean your PC from parasites because the system is most likely not infected with harmful cyber threats. These people will ask you to pay them a lot of money for their services. While some less experienced PC users may think they are making a bargain, the truth is that they have just lost their money to culprits. When it comes to such highly questionable platforms like Live-online-support.info, the first task of its administrators is to generate a consistent flow of visitors. For this reason, these people have released a compromised Web add-on that may hijack the browsers of the victims. This extension may travel across the cyberspace inserted in the installers of third-party applications. If you download content from suspicious platforms, you may install this browser hijacker without having any clue. After it enters, the plugin may set Live-online-support.info as the homepage of Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. Whenever the site loads, you will encounter a large pop-up on a Blue Screen of Death (BsoD) background. The fabricated alert says that there are security errors due to threats. Instead of calling 844-879-3977 and contacting the con artists, you should run a system scan with а reputable anti-malware application to delete the browser hijacker.

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