Tech support scammers out in force

[Galdorf]

There are soooo many popup tech support scam websites claiming to be Microsoft i have never seen so many getting calls every day even had the page pop up on office computer with ublock origin and Malwarebytes, malwarebytes anti-exploit installed.
Seems they are in every ad companies websites including CNN, YouTube,Google,Facebook sites seems some are using a zero day exploit and somehow injecting the url into your web browser just sitting on any website including bank websites and trusted websites.
Some how they are even able to get past custom host files from hostman on a freshly formatted VM with all Hostmans custom hosts checked off it still got through.

 

[Larry Sabo]

It's getting so bad and frequent, that if I haven't already set up remote support I just tell my customers to hold down the power button to force a shutdown, then to restart the PC. Searches through browser history have proved pointless and a waste of time, as a means of avoiding a recurrence, as have MBAM, good A-Vs, etc. I keep forgetting to set OpenDNS though. (Thanks for the reminder, Stoney.)

 

[acscva]

I had a customer that fell for the fake QuickBooks support today. The sad thing is when I took them on over a year ago I noticed the QuickBooks support txt file on their desktop and she said they charged her $400 for a year of support. Luckily this time she realized after about 5 minutes of him on her computer remotely but it was too late......

 

[Galdorf]

Have a constant stream of new customers that almost fell for the scam bring it in for a check and cleaning those ads seem to be popping up at alot of website ads that is main reason i will never turn off my ublock origin 99% malware are from ads with scripts.