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IF SOMETHING LIKE WHAT’S BELOW

APPEARS ON MY COMPUTER SCREEN...

DO NOT CALL THE NUMBER!

IT’S A SCAM.

If it’s accompanied by alarm sounds, beeping, and/or a voice telling you

that your computer is about to crash and you’re going to lose everything,

turn off your speakers, and remember, it’s a scam.

If you call, they'll offer to fix the problem if you let them have remote access to

your computer. But then they'll demand big $ for the fix, and if you refuse to give

them your credit card, they'll lock your computer so no-one can use it.

To get out of one of these browser hijacks on a Windows computer, with one

hand, hold down both the Ctrl and Shift keys in the lower left of your keyboard,

and while doing that, with your other hand, tap the Esc key in the top-left. That

will open the Task Manager. In the list of running programs that appears, click on

the name of your web-browser (Edge, Chrome, Firefox), and then click on End Task

in the lower-right, and the hijack will vanish.