888-834-1353

Locked up my computer and said I had a virus and to call them immediately.

Just happened to me as well. What to do?

DO NOT CALL THAT PHONE NUMBER!

If you see the message ONLY with your browser,
-- google "browser hijack", and try some of the solutions seen there.

If you see the message pretty much all the time,
-- download the anti-malware program from malwarebytes.com (or another legitimate site)
-- run it
--  Make sure you check the boxes that say "PUPs" (Potentially Unwanted Programs)
--  Run "bootkit" detection and removal

If none of that works, you may have to visit your local computer repair shop, or restore your system from a backup created before you saw the "virus warning".

DO NOT CALL THAT PHONE NUMBER!

Happened to me this morning

Called # I was told I was infected w/virus from spyware or adware by 80 percent.  If I paid $149 the problem could be fixed.  When I mentioned I was a senior citizen, price went down $50.  Eventually woman asked how much could I pay & I hung up knowing I wanted to do a phone  # lookup to see who I was speaking to.

I just got that same message and I called the number but they hang up, I will be reporting them to the FCC and FTC in a few minutes.

did not receive a call...I called this number after receiving a message to call.

Received msg upon start up of computer stating Trojan horse discovered with above number which was titled Microsoft Tech Support. Very difficult to close the msg. Called the number and they wanted to sell  us a 3 yr subscription to clean up all computers in our home. When told the price was too high ($259.95) price was lowered to $149. Wanted a credit card number. When phone was hung up they called back. They said they were selling the program from Yoda.com.

Do not call the phone number!  This procedures works: do  Control - Alt - Delete, select Task Manager, click on the tab marked "Processes," where you will see a short form of the web address for the site that's scamming you; click on it and delete it.  It's a multi-part procedure, and you may have to do it several times, but it will clear the web address out of your browser.

This just happened to me....very shady....they locked up my computer and then pointed out how I had many hacking attempts on my computer.....run!

Locked up our computer. Finally got it to re-boot. Called the number -  was put on hold and then disconnected.

Did you not read the earlier warnings to not call the number?
How can we help you if you disregard our advice?

Obvious new virus today 4/25/2015. Don't bother calling this number. Froze my pc all day making it impossible to leave page or turn off. Off to update security...

Locked up my pc.  Claimed they were Microsoft.  When I told them I had no credit cards they hung up..  Beware of  888-834-1353

They locked my computer up this afternoon.  I used this method to unlock it.
I would like to find these people and break all of their fingers so they could not use a keyboard any more !!!!

I received this message on my laptop today from "Windows detected security error due to suspicious activity found on your computer. Contact our Certified Live Technicians 1-888-834-1353. I searched the number on line and ran across this blog. Since my computer froze due to this message I did a force shutdown (Ctrl-alt-delete). This worked. Thank you all for your input. I will now report them to Micro Soft.

Got the same message as stated by others on the blog.  Called the number, told us it would take 60-90 minutes to fix the problem.  Since I have another computer for work, I checked with my person while still talking to this scammer. She told me it was not legit, scammer hung up.  l'm taking the computer to be fixed.  We were told to always check the number to see if it's a scam. They're out there, BEWARE!

My wife actually called this number before telling me of the problem. She says that all she heard was a click after 10 seconds or so. I'm going to follow the removal advice here, but should I be concerned about identity theft since she called?

explorer locked up with the same message so I called this number said they worked for Microsoft saying that someone else was using remote access on my laptop tried charging me $270 then price dropped to $100 for that Yoda care. unfortunately I did not look up this number till later but ran some diagnostics on computer and seems to be fine.

I haven't called it or anything but it won't get off my browser