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2018-07-08, 13:16 #1
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Watch Out for This Chrome Tech Support Scam
https://www.pcmag.com/news/362300/wa...newsstand-news
Even seasoned tech professionals can't help but react badly when lots of big, red text appears on a computer screen proclaiming a machine has been compromised. They are almost always a scam, but unless you know what they look like, it can be easy to fall for them. Now a Google Chrome bug has presented scammers with a new opportunity to scare users into paying them to fix a non-existent problem.
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2018-07-09, 00:42 #2
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You could have linked directly to the ArsTechnica site.
https://arstechnica.com/information-...-into-a-panic/
cheers, Paul
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2018-07-09, 10:25 #3
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That's true Paul.