Tech support scammers are modern-day con artists, preying on our deepest technological fears and vulnerabilities. Tammy of Flagler Beach, Florida, recently reached out to us with a concerning email: ...

The Microsoft Windows Notification tech support scam that displays a popup that pretends to be a Microsoft notification. This notification will state that your computer is infected and was locked. The ...

Microsoft is on a roll lately, delivering new and updated solutions such as an improved Teams experience and the company’s AI assistant, Copilot. As a result, many organizations have now standardized ...

In brief: The web is populated with popup 'virus alerts' urging people to call the included phone numbers so the issues can be fixed. Tech-savvy users know these are scams, most of which originate ...

An installer purporting to be Microsoft Security Essentials is malware that can lead to a support call scam. Malware that uses a fake but realistic looking Windows message to convince users it’s a ...

Tech support scammers are often based in foreign countries, making it harder to stop them. But thanks to a tip from Microsoft and Amazon, officials in India shut down two tech support operations in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A computer scam that imitates Microsoft customer support locks the screen on your device and instructs you to call a phone number.