Ravie Lakshmanan in TNW: Terminate the browser process via the Windows Task Manager or use the Force Quit feature in macOS. "The best thing to do in these circumstances is to remain calm and not react suddenly to what's happening.Typically, these scams want to frighten users into handing over valuable information or money." Dan Goodin in Ars Technica: "Whatever else people may do, they should never call the phone number displayed." They load a specific javascript code into their hosted ad that people are unlucky enough to have loaded when they visit a webpage and thus, locked browser. It's scammers taking advantage of advertisements. Well, observers agreed that victims falling for the information as genuine fell into the category of victims of tech support scams through the years.Īnother reader's comment, this time on ExtremeTech: ".this has been common practice for scammers for over three years.This is not just a Firefox issue. Scammers don't want to waste time with savvy, smart or skeptical people.") (A reader comment in Ars Technica: "There is a theory that all the bad grammar and spelling mistakes in many scams are deliberate too. The Window desktop sends viruses over the Internet. The Windows desktop is using pirated software. Why did we block your computer? The Windows registry key is illegal. "Please stop and do not close the PC…The registry key of your computer is locked. It is as if Borat is talking which should possibly give people a hint this is all a dupe. Then victim users who believe this is all happening for real are tricked to call the bogus support line. The Firefox bug fools users to think their computers have been hacked. Upset by a flood of continuous authentication-required prompts, a user might try to leave the warning page not possible, or may try to close it forget about it. The attack works on both Windows and Mac versions.
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