'Your Windows 10 is infected with 5 viruses!' Pop-Ups

The 'Your Windows 10 is infected with 5 viruses!' pop-ups are fraudulent browser messages that users may come across while browsing shady Web destinations such as websites that distribute adult videos, game cracks, pirated software or other illicit digital content. The 'Your Windows 10 is infected with 5 viruses!' pop-ups are designed to look like a legitimate virus scan from Windows Defender, and they inform the users that their computers have been infected with at least five viruses. The purpose of this fraudulent alert is to convince the users that they have to take immediate action by following the instructions seen in the 'Your Windows 10 is infected with 5 viruses!' pop-ups. Often, these fraudulent pop-ups may lead the users to a website promoting fake technical support services that are meant to take their money, or they may promote a shady anti-virus tool that may cause even more trouble.

What you should remember about the 'Your Windows 10 is infected with 5 viruses!' pop-ups and similar Web browser messages, is that their contents are never true – a random website pop-up can never provide you with accurate information about your computer's health and security. Pages that claim to do so are likely to be the first stage of a fraudulent scheme.

Also remember that seeing the 'Your Windows 10 is infected with 5 viruses!' pop-ups may often be accompanied by small issues that the website is designed to mimic – it may play a sound alert, display constant pop-ups that prevent you from accessing other Web browser tabs, etc. Do not forget that these 'bugs' are part of the scheme, and they are meant to trick you into thinking that the virus alert is real. If the 'Your Windows 10 is infected with 5 viruses!' pop-ups have impaired your Web browser entirely, then you may need to restart it via your Task Manager.