Microsoft-security-center.org

Microsoft-security-center.org is a website associated with fraudulent security warnings and a variety of phone-based hoaxes and is unaffiliated with the Microsoft Corporation. Because of this domain's historical ties to both personalized strategies using stolen information and to threatening software, malware researchers advise avoiding all contact possible with Microsoft-security-center.org. You should use traditional anti-malware solutions for any system that shows signs of being redirected to Microsoft-security-center.org or otherwise promoting Microsoft-security-center.org's fake services.

Going to the Center of a Web of Trickery

Belying its Web address, Microsoft-security-center.org is registered to a third party, Incognito Ads, using what is strongly suspected to be fraudulent admin data. Most websites using equally misleading URLs possess ties to various PC security hoaxes, and Microsoft-security-center.org has continued that tradition with phone-based hoaxes of its own. The majority of Microsoft-security-center.org incidents are precipitated by previous infections by threats, as of yet incompletely identified by malware researchers.

Threatening software promoting Microsoft-security-center.org may attempt to hijack or imitate Microsoft Security Essentials, and typically is correlated with the presence of fraudulent anti-malware scanning results with high rates of false positives. These fake scans may also include pop-ups for Microsoft-security-center.org or may redirect your browser to Microsoft-security-center.org directly and automatically.

Although associated threats may claim that Microsoft-security-center.org is designed to benefit your PC's security, its actual purpose is to encourage contact with con artists via a provided phone number. This same phone number also has historical ties to other phone-based misleading tactics, including, in particular, debt collection tactics and attacks involving the previous theft of sensitive data (such as Social Security Numbers).

Staying Safe from a Fake Microsoft Support Line

The final consequences of contact with Microsoft-security-center.org's con artists may vary with the individual encounter, but may involve requests for money or additional information, or even remote access to your computer. As a rule, you should ignore any advice offered by Microsoft-security-center.org or equally fraudulent companies, and use any means needed to reverse settings changes suggested by them.

As a special note regarding personal data security, victims also may wish to make use of free fraud alert services from relevant credit companies. Illegal access to SSN information isn't always the result of a data breach and can result from attacks against corporations, such as Sony, with thousands of numbers compromised in these campaigns.

However, malware researchers are primarily concerned with Microsoft-security-center.org's continuing propensity to associate with the attacks of fraudulent security software and other PC threats. You should consider scanning any computer that shows unusual behavior promoting Microsoft-security-center.org for a bare minimum security standard, regardless of whether you're using Windows or a non-Microsoft OS.