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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Microsoft has started testing a new "scareware blocker" feature for the Edge web browser on Windows PCs, which uses machine learning (ML) to detect tech support scams. Scareware scams (also known as ...

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.