ptatohed
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@knight1fox3 or another computer pro, please..... Our home computer (Dell Inspiron 3647, W10, Microsoft Edge) has been experiencing this pop-up scam thing where, while surfing on-line, a new tab will open by itself and will include the screen shot shown below. I can't exit out or close the web tab. It also comes with loud, scary audio "Critical alert from Microsoft. Windows has detected.....". The only way to end it is to go to Ctrl Alt Del Task Manager and End task on Microsoft Edge.
I'm a cheap bastard as most of you know so I use free anti-virus software. I had been using Windows Defender for years with no problems. Once this problem started, I switched to Avira (highly rated free anti-virus software by Consumer Reports). You can see from the screen shot that Avira alerts me when this scam window opens. And you can see it is blocking/moving suspicious files. But it seems to be reactive and not proactive. Why isn't Avira stopping the pop-up in the first place?
So, the question is, what can I do to stop this annoying pop-up scam window? (looking for a (hopefully) free solution. ) Thanks!
I'm a cheap bastard as most of you know so I use free anti-virus software. I had been using Windows Defender for years with no problems. Once this problem started, I switched to Avira (highly rated free anti-virus software by Consumer Reports). You can see from the screen shot that Avira alerts me when this scam window opens. And you can see it is blocking/moving suspicious files. But it seems to be reactive and not proactive. Why isn't Avira stopping the pop-up in the first place?
So, the question is, what can I do to stop this annoying pop-up scam window? (looking for a (hopefully) free solution. ) Thanks!
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