I'm not Robin but I'll just say that any good, legitimate antimalware
detector will never provide an 800 number for users to call. Yes, what
you saw was a Web site trying to trick you into believing that your
computer was infected when it may well be fine. No different than Web
sites offering free products to improve your muscles or offering a free
vacation to Maui. Oh, and while I'm on this subject, it's also good to
avoid those sites which promise to speed up your PC and improve its
performance by downloading a free program. Please, don't do it. They
won't improve your PC's speed, will likely slow it down and may well be
yet another type of malware.
David Goldfield,
Assistive Technology Specialist
Feel free to visit my Web site
WWW.DavidGoldfield.Info
On 3/23/2016 9:53 PM, The New Vision Store wrote:
Hello Robin,
So you think it was a piece of malware?
It said call Microsoft and gave an 800 number, but I surely didn’t attempt to match it to any MS phone I might have.
As for security, free, yes, free and accessible.
Have any suggestions?
I’m the worst kind, I want to solve it and not have it as topic agin.
*From:*blind-philly-comp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:blind-philly-comp-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Robin Frost
*Sent:* Wednesday, March 23, 2016 8:12 PM
*To:* blind-philly-comp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Subject:* [blind-philly-comp] Re: instead of M S E
Hi,
It was saying it because it was a scam to try and get you to click on something thus giving bad people access to your stuff. Next time rather than shutting down completely merely use control plus win plus escape to get to task manager and kill your browser. Odds are after that you can go about your business just fine after that.
As have been discussed before many have suggested security suites they like for various reasons with varying levels of accessibility of the paid variety. Perhaps one of those might give you piece of mind. Note: I’ve never yet run a piece of security software which will ever blare a loud wake the dead message at you to alert you of something.
I hope that calms the waters once again.
Robin
*From:*The New Vision Store <mailto:nvs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
*Sent:*Wednesday, March 23, 2016 7:14 PM
*To:*blind-philly-comp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:blind-philly-comp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
*Subject:*[blind-philly-comp] instead of M S E
Hi,
I went to youtube the other day and there were alarms going off in my headphones at 4:30AM. The most nerve racking to be sure. I windows tab tab to shut donw.
It hasn’t happened again.
The words “windows defender has detected malware (something something) I e “
Were heard. It also suggested I call a 800 number.
I brought the machine back up and ran malewarebytes. I’ve followed links to youtube and no alarms again.
Multiple questions:
I use m s e, so why was it saying “windows defender”?
My malwarebytes is a free “trial” and I can’t seem to unload it and load it again that it doesn’t say “trial”. Then it tells me that after the trial, my active monitoring will be turned off.
(see next question…
So what free, program would take the place of M s e and malwarebytes, accessibly?
Is windows defender that much better than m s e that I could feel safer dropping m s e and go in to turn on w-defender?
What two free programs will do the job of m s e or Defender and malwarebytes accessibly
To allow me to stop worrying, and having to deal with security issues?
I don’t mind running accessible programs. But the (whine and complain) inconvenience of having issues when it is necessary to complete a task… well it’s (putting it mildly cause it’s so close to Easter) um, rather, bothersome.
Free, please, there have been too many extra expenses right now, and accessible, well you know the name of the list.
Thanks all and any
