Microsoft calls to tell me I have a virus

Similar Questions

• Microsoft called the owners of computers on the virus?

  I recently got a call at my place of residence of a person saying that they were calling from Microsoft and that they were receiving error messages from my computer as a malicious virus was downloaded on my computer. They really say this without having access to my computer and what they are doing he used to call people to their personal residences? When I tried to tell the person that I don't download games or music on my computer, he said "I don't trust you." I was pretty shocked and hung up, but then I started second guessing myself. Someone at - he heard of this? Is this some kind of scam?

  Hello

  Yes, it's a SCAM!

  Avoid scams to phone for tech support
  http://www.Microsoft.com/security/online-privacy/avoid-phone-scams.aspx

  In the United States, you can contact the FBI, Attorney general, the police authorities and consumer
  Watch groups. Arm yourself with knowledge.

  The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation
  (FBI) and the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3C), funded in part by the Bureau of Justice Assistance
  (BJA).
  http://www.ic3.gov/complaint/default.aspx

  No, Microsoft wouldn't you not solicited. Or they would know if errors exist on your
  computer. So that's the fraud or scams to get your money or worse to steal your identity.

  Avoid scams that use the Microsoft name fraudulently - Microsoft is not unsolicited
  phone calls to help you fix your computer
  http://www.Microsoft.com/protect/fraud/phishing/msName.aspx

  Scams and hoaxes
  http://support.Microsoft.com/contactus/cu_sc_virsec_master?ws=support#tab3

  Microsoft Support Center consumer
  https://consumersecuritysupport.Microsoft.com/default.aspx?altbrand=true&SD=GN&ln=en-us&St=1&wfxredirect=1&gssnb=1

  Microsoft technical support
  http://support.Microsoft.com/contactus/?ws=support#TAB0

  Microsoft - contact technical support
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/help/contact-support

  I hope this helps.

  Rob Brown - Microsoft MVP<- profile="" -="" windows="" expert="" -="" consumer="" :="" bicycle=""><- mark="" twain="" said="" it="">

• my computer has started talking to me telling me to contact this number because I have a virus

  So, what should I do when I'm on my computer and it suddenly starts he tells me I have a virus and to stop what I'm doing and call this number and when I try to get out of the page, it will not respond. I turned off my computer and restarted without restore and everything seems to be okay. What should I do? I was on the site of Cox Cable, trying to get my Bill.

  It's a scam.

• My computer tells me I have insufficient disk space

  Hello:

  My computer tells me that I have a low disk space he came when I was with my registry cleaner.   I did a hard drive defragmentation.    My space

  information are:

  I have virtual memory - 2.00 GB

  Available virtual MEMOR - 1.95 GB

  Spacing - 2.46 GB pagefile

  Total physical memory - 1 024 MB

  Available physical memory - 475,51 MB

  Does this mean I have to buy more memory?   I don't know anything about this stuff and can someone help me?    In addition, I would like to use

  Fix it program on Microsoft, but he tells me that he is not available for my computer.   Please help me someone.    Thank you very much!

  Hello:

  My computer tells me that I have a low disk space he came when I was with my registry cleaner.   I did a hard drive defragmentation.    My space

  information are:

  I have virtual memory - 2.00 GB

  Available virtual MEMOR - 1.95 GB

  Spacing - 2.46 GB pagefile

  Total physical memory - 1 024 MB

  Available physical memory - 475,51 MB

  Does this mean I have to buy more memory?   I don't know anything about this stuff and can someone help me?    In addition, I would like to use

  Fix it program on Microsoft, but he tells me that he is not available for my computer.   Please help me someone.    Thank you very much!

  First of all, please note that you are confusing memory with disk space. The term 'memory' is used to designate the place where the computer contains the program and data, that it is working with at the moment. It is normally a memory (RAM), but which can be extended with the page or swap hard disk file. The word 'memory' is never used to refer to the space on a drive (if it is a hard drive, floppy disk, CD, DVD or thumb drive). Space on a hard disk is normally called "storage" or simply "disk space".

  Call for 'memory' disk space is not so wrong that just unconventional. In a sense, the disk space is, of course, memory, but the important thing to realize is that the word is never used in this way, and if you do, you do so at the risk of seriously confuse your audience.

  So, since you get a "low disk space" message , please tell us what is your hard drive, how it it used and how much is free.

  Second, do * not * run a registry cleaner! Registry cleaning programs are * all * snake oil. The registry cleaning is not necessary and dangerous. Let alone register and do not use any registry cleaner. Despite what many people think, and what software record cleaning providers are trying to you convince to have used the registry entries is not really make you hurt.

  The risk of a serious problem caused by a registry cleaner by mistake delete an entry you need is much greater than any potential benefit it may have.

  Read http://www.edbott.com/weblog/archives/000643.html

  and http://aumha.net/viewtopic.php?t=28099

  and also http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2005/10/02/registry-junk-a-windows-fact-of-life.aspx

  Let me stress that neither me nor anyone else who warns against the use of registry cleaners has never said that they always cause problems. If they have always caused problems, they would disappear from the market almost immediately. Many people have used a registry cleaner and never had a problem with it.

  The problem with a registry cleaner is that it carries with it the essential * risk * to have a problem. And since there is no advantage to using a registry cleaner, running the risk is a very bad deal.

• Microsoft called my house

  Microsoft called my house to tell me someone was trying to hack into my computer. I hung up on top of the man after him asking a variety of questions would be that he could not answer being:

  A computer trying to be hacked? (His response was that he could tell me after that I followed the instructions)
  How he came to find is that certain telephone number? (He told me that was confidential)
  Where he was calling from. (He studdered and stammered a few places, but never completely answered.)
  What the computer a. Windows program (it was where it even once told me that it did not matter.)

  After that, I hung up on him, and he won't stop bothering me. Now, in all my years of having a computer and my computer spoil on me not a widows nobody called me to inform me what it is. I always had to call them, which is reasonable. I want to know if it is legitimate, which I doubt, and if I can understand how he got my phone number if I can keep someone else to do.

  Thank you and have a wonderful day!

  Fake phone calls to technical support

  Calls unrequested telephone of this nature are almost always a common scam. Do not let them give any info, do not give access to your PC, not give them all the money and do not go to all the websites that they suggest. One moment.

  Please see:

  http://www.Microsoft.com/en-GB/security/online-privacy/avoid-phone-scams.aspx

  Microsoft issues never not solicited for phone calls of support or security.

  These types of callers can use completely fictitious names or bogusly claim to be of real companies other than Microsoft as well.

• What to do if you have called the alert number 800-741-4144 Virus?

  What to do if you have called the alert number 800-741-4144 Virus?

  Don't tell them anything, don't let them access your Mac.

  It's a scam & fraud... Hope that you didn't call.

  This is referred to as bogus ransomware.

  The browser itself must be smoking, use force him to leave in the main menu of the Apple.

  • Force an app to close on your Mac - Apple Support

  Choose Safari, click on force quit. If this does not work at first, read more:

  See the details in this trick created by a member and contributor here to ASC:

  Phony 'technical support' / 'ransomware' popups and web pages

  To see or read what is said on the deletion of the browser and maybe

  similar objects associated with adware and popups, this covers Safari browser.

  •Arretez pop-up ads and advertising on Safari - Apple Support

  I hope that you are not fallen to pay...

  Good luck!

• Microsoft called? It's for real?

  I just got a call from someone claiming to be an agent of Microsoft, located in Elkhart, in. I told him I didn't believe Microsoft would call be subject of a virus problem (I have not noticed problems.).  I think it's a scam.  Microsoft calls customers?

  Hello

  Yes, it's a SCAM!

  Avoid scams to phone for tech support
  http://www.Microsoft.com/security/online-privacy/avoid-phone-scams.aspx

  In the United States, you can contact the local police to the FBI, Attorney general, and
  consumer watch groups. Arm yourself with knowledge.

  The Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is a partnership between the
  Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National White Collar Crime Center
  (NW3C), funded in part by the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA).
  http://www.ic3.gov/complaint/default.aspx

  No, Microsoft wouldn't you not solicited. Nor would they know if any errors
  It exists on your computer. So those are the frauds or scams to get your money or
  worse to steal your identity.

  Avoid scams that use the Microsoft name fraudulently: Microsoft has no
  for you unsolicited telephone calls help fix your computer
  http://www.Microsoft.com/protect/fraud/phishing/msName.aspx

  Scams and hoaxes
  http://support.Microsoft.com/contactus/cu_sc_virsec_master?ws=support#tab3

  Microsoft Support Center consumer
  https://consumersecuritysupport.Microsoft.com/default.aspx?altbrand=true&SD=GN&ln=en-us&St=1&wfxredirect=1&gssnb=1

  Microsoft technical support
  http://support.Microsoft.com/contactus/?ws=support#TAB0

  Microsoft - contact technical support
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/help/contact-support

  I hope this helps.

  Rob Brown - Microsoft MVP<- profile="" -="" windows="" expert="" -="" consumer="" :="" bicycle=""><- mark="" twain="" said="" it="">

• How to open. VMO files from the old program from Microsoft called makeover

  Several years ago I purchace one program, I thought to be from Microsoft called makeover.  It's where you took a picture of a person and with the program changed their hairstyle, color, features of the face.  Found a disc I scored some photos of my kids we did together at a family event, and they are .vmo files and would like to know if there is a patch to open.

  Hello

  1. which version of the operating system are you using?

  2. What is the full name of the software?

  3 are those files that have been saved from another computer?

  4. do you have the media to reinstall the software?

  5. If you are unable to install the software, you can install in compatibility mode?

  Check out the site mentioned below for instructions on how to install a program in compatibility mode.

  Make older programs in this version of Windows

  http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/make-older-programs-run-in-this-version-of-windows.

• Suspicious call telling me that I have problems with my computer and turn it on

  I got a call tonight from a woman with a heavy Indian accent, claiming that there was something very wrong with my computer (virus, or something like that) and she wanted to check a number on my computer (ISP?.. .not ISP because I know what it is... another type of number) and I could only get the number if I turn on my computer.  Been suspicious so I asked who she was.  Quickly, she replied that she was working for a company that supports Windows XP and Vista.  I asked the company and name and she said his company's Solutions megabytes and it was called Genny/Jenny Williams number 102 (I asked his employee number).  I informed her that I was very suspicious and asked for a phone number.  Basically, she said that she only wanted to help and could not if I don't turn on my computer.  I pushed and asked for a phone number as she says that she asks xxxx (town 2 miles where I live).  I was persistent and spoke to him longer then told him to give me his number and I'll call him his back to make sure it was legitimate.  Suddenly, there was silence on the phone.  I was right to do what I did?  I am now very worried that maybe I have a virus/spywear on my computer (I am currently scanning it w/Windows Defender and Weboot Anti Virus and Spy Sweeper to see if it comes out clean.)

  It is a common scam. Do not give them information, do not give them access to your PC and do not go to all the websites that they suggest. One moment. See:

  http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/security/online-privacy/msname.aspx .

  (these people often but not always use the name of Microsoft)

  If you had him leave on your computer you would certainly had malware on it, because she would have said it. You did the right thing.

  There is no way she could know whether or not you have malware on your system before she calls you.

• A person of so-called security from Microsoft called and said my firewall did not work and had an ID # and asked me to do certain things is - this legitimate?

  A person supposed to be Microsoft called and said my Firewall Security Center was not working and had an ID # they said was my ID of computers that he read out to me and that I have no idea whether or not this is the ID.  They wanted me to be in front of my computer and asked me to do things and wouldn't continue until I started, I started to do what they asked which of course I did NOT! I requested a call back number, and that's what he gave me:
  1 855-731-4936 and his name was Fred Watson, was not American speaking, very strong foreign accent.
  Is - is this legitimate?

  Its a scam.  A well known and long-lasting.  Microsoft will never ask you for personal information (they already have them) and you never call cold.  Nor do they send messages of anti virus - and they do not have to connect to your machine.  NEVER allow anyone to connect remotely to your machine.

  They are the partners who do this nor Microsoft does not only

  See below for additional information on this topic and what to do and how Microsoft works:

  http://www.Microsoft.com/security/online-privacy/msName.aspx
  http://www.Microsoft.com/security/online-privacy/phishing-scams.aspx

• I received a phone call from someone who claims to have a Virus

  I just got a call form telephone someone who claims to be from Microsoft, which says that I have a virus that transmits the data to my computer.

  Looks a bit like a scam, but is it possible it might be authentic?
  Thank you!

  MrBoo,

  If you have not opened an incident (support ticket) with Microsoft, they do not contact you.

  If you need help with virus-related issues, contact the Support Services Microsoft product.

  Visit the Microsoft Solution Center and antivirus security for resources and tools to keep your PC safe and healthy.  If you have problems with the installation of the update itself, visit the Microsoft Update Support for resources and tools to keep your PC updated with the latest updates.

  For support outside the United States and the Canada, visit the page Web of Product Support Services.

  Hope this helps,

  Vincenzo Di Russo - Microsoft MVP Windows Internet Explorer, Windows Desktop Experience & security - since 2003. ~ ~ ~ My MVP profile: https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Vincenzo

• Microsoft Calling customers?

  my friend received a call from microsoft abt his computer sends in too many error messages and had to remote into his computer to fix it. Is - this kosher? They had him turn on the remote desktop.

  No, it's a scam.

  http://www.Microsoft.com/en-GB/security/online-privacy/avoid-phone-scams.aspx

  Microsoft does not make unsolicited calls. They will call you only if you have contacted them first.

  Nobody is the ability to identify a computer "sending too many error messages" and relate this back to a phone number.

  I'm afraid that it will have to review everything on the compromised computer.

• Windows Live mail tells me I have an invalid password when trying to open the e-mail message in the client.

  I can sign into my e-mail account of Bellsouth/yahoo online through my browser, but Windows Live mail tells me I have an invalid password when trying to open the email in the WLM client.  I have rebuilt Windows Essentials, I made sure that the password is shorter than 16 characters.

  Windows Live Mail has worked until I suspected my e-mail account had been hacked, and I changed my password. Twice (on the 3 dozen attempts) WLM has requested a password, I entered into it, and it downloaded my email on the server, and then gave me an error saying that it could not complete the task and would not send/receive once again - it just keeps asking for the password.
  What Miss me?

  Windows Live Mail is supported in this forum
  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive/Forum/LIVEmail?tab=all

• I keep getting phone calls from a man who calls himself from Windows saying: I have a virus and to pay to get rid of him!

  • This man said that it comes from windows and I have a virus and you have to pay to remove! I know it's a lie and paid no attention, but I expect some vulnerable people might do! How can I report to microsoft? Has anyone actually paid these merchant scam?
  Thank you for getting back on this type of scam.
  Yes, some vulnerable people indeed caught up.

  Microsoft has none of the unsolicited telephone calls to help you fix your computer

  In this type of scam cybercriminals are calling you and claim to be of Support technique Microsoft. They offer help with your computer problems. Once scammers have earned your trust, they try to steal and damage your computer with malicious software, including viruses and spyware.

  Although the law enforcement can trace phone numbers, often authors use pay telephones, disposable cell phones or stolen cellular phone numbers. It is better to avoid being scammed rather than try to repair the damage afterwards.

  Treat all unsolicited sceptically telephone calls. Don't provide personal information.

  If you receive an unsolicited call from someone who claims to be from Technical Support Microsoft, hang up. We do not have such calls.

  If you think you might be a victim of fraud, you can report it.

  For more information, see: what to do if you think you have been scammed...

  Read more: avoid scams that use the Microsoft name fraudulently

• Saying of pop-up window I have a virus and call immediately

  I was reading my email and a message pop up came in saying I have a virus and immediately call 1-844-307-5972.  It's for real?

  No, this message will be a scam.

  Force Quit Safari, then restart Safari while holding the SHIFT key.