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Is a Full-Page "Pop-Up" Ad an Indication I Have Malware?
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[QUOTE="Mark44, post: 6012084, member: 147785"] In the past few days I watched a lot of Youtube videos on computer scams. For many of these, the first symptom was a pop-up on a web page saying that the computer or other device was infected with some virus, and directing the user to contact a certain number for "Windows Support" or some other support group. In all of the videos, the "help" really translated into the scam group helping themselves to your money by establishing control of the user's computer and fishing around for personal banking information, etc. I agree with jedi that you need to kill the browser process to close the page. I don't know what antivirus/malware tools are available for Android phones, but for computers, you really need antivirus software and antimalware software installed to prevent problems like these from occurring. [/QUOTE]
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