Microsoft is warning Windows users over a fake Microsoft security product that locks an infected computer and tries to trick victims into calling a support number

By | July 30, 2017

Microsoft doesn’t call you to offer tech support and does not provide phone numbers to call on its BSoD security warnings.

 

Microsoft has sounded the alarm over a fake installer for its Security Essentials, which attempts to trick victims into contacting bogus help centres.  Microsoft has released a  “severe” warning over new Windows malware that mimics Microsoft’s free Security Essentials antivirus, and then displays a fake Blue Screen of Death, or BSoD, with an error message and a suggestion to call a 1800 number that is not a Microsoft support centre.  The malware, which Microsoft calls Hicurdismos, disables Task Manager to prevent the user from terminating the fake BSoD, and hides the mouse cursor to make the user think Windows is not responding.

 

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