Hello David,
Sorry to hear about that. That is a fake warning you are getting on your PC. Please do not call, grant access to your PC or pay money to those people. We request you to uninstall any unwanted and unknown programs from your control panel. And also consider to remove unwanted add ons and extensions. Thank you.
Friend of mine called saying her computer was locked up with a message saying something about the sidor spyware may have infected the computer and they should call 855-400-5209 to contact Microsoft Support. I have done everything but pay a service to try and find who owns 855-400-5209 and it seems to be this ethereal number that is in California, Texas and New Jersey. I can't find anything mentioning any sidor spyware. The message also says something about do not shut down or reboot your computer or risk losing all of your information. She has already shut the computer down and apparently either tried to reboot or woke it up from a sleep/hibernate state. At that point the message was still on her screen. No one needs to state the obvious that it is some kind of scam, that seems fairly obvious. I am just looking for any information anyone may have come across on how to deal with this from this point.
Thanks
Dave Miller
Hello David,
Sorry to hear about that. That is a fake warning you are getting on your PC. Please do not call, grant access to your PC or pay money to those people. We request you to uninstall any unwanted and unknown programs from your control panel. And also consider to remove unwanted add ons and extensions. Thank you.