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They are called FkeAlerts because these web sites falsely alert the site visitor to an event that does not or did not exist

All these have one thing in common and they have nothing to do with any software on your PC.   They are all nefarious web sites meant to defraud you of money. The objective is to, falsely, goad you to make the phone call and pay for some service contract for an incident that never happened or buy some software.  In the case of Tech Support scammers, they may continue to charge your Credit Card for other services, remote into your computer and do real damage and/or exfiltrate your personal data and they may use the information they obtain from you to commit additional frauds.

I have created a PDF ScreenShow of a myriad of FakeAlert screens - FakeAlert-Screens.pdf  /  Flash Version

They are all a kind of malicious advertisement ( aka; malvertisement ).

Using Task Manager and Killing the;  Edge, IExplore, Chrome, Firefox, etc, processes is very effective once you are affected by these FakeAlerts.  Right now, to block it means Malwarebytes needs to know the URL to block.   If you can provide the URL it can be added to the list for Malwarebytes sites to block.

Submissions of suspect and malicious URLs can be performed in; Newest IP or URL Threats after reading;  READ ME: Purpose of this forum

Reference:  McAfee FakeAlert

Malwarebytes has created new Browser Add-Ons called Malwarebytes Browser Guard for Chrome and Firefox to mitigate FakeAlerts and other frauds. 

Browser Add-On references:   Malwarebytes Browser Guard
Malwarebytes Browser Guard Extension for Chrome
Malwarebytes Browser Guard Extension for Firefox

 

Reference:                                     
US FBI PSA - Tech Support Fraud
US FTC Consumer Information -  Tech Support Scams
US FTC - Tech Support Operators Agree to Settle Charges by FTC and the State of Ohio
US FTC - FTC and Federal, State and International Partners Announce Major Crackdown on Tech Support Scams
Malwarebytes' Blog - Search on - "tech support scams"
Malwarebytes' Blog - "Tech support scams: help and resource page"



1.  Also located at "My Online Security" - Some videos of typical tech support scams

 

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