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<blockquote data-quote="Randy B. Singer" data-source="post: 1793936" data-attributes="member: 190607"><p>You may not be able to, because despite appearances there is no malware on your computer.</p><p></p><p>There has been a social engineering exploit going around for a while now, and it is pushed out via compromised advertising networks. So what you are seeing is basically a malicious ad. When these things first came out they had the ability to make it appear that your browser was frozen, but Apple has kept them from being able to do that in recent versions of Safari. It is now pretty easy to just ignore these scam warnings when you see them. I've written an entire article about this, and how to deal with it:</p><p></p><p>Scary Internet Scam Becoming Disturbingly Common</p><p><a href="https://tidbits.com/2015/07/07/scary-internet-scam-becoming-disturbingly-common/" target="_blank">https://tidbits.com/2015/07/07/scary-internet-scam-becoming-disturbingly-common/</a></p><p></p><p>The most important things to remember are to NEVER call a phone number included in one of these scams, and NEVER click on a link included in one of these scams....and if you ignore the preceding NEVER EVER EVER give any "tech support" or other entity remote access to your computer. That's how they really get you. And NEVER EVER EVER give them any sort of payment, especially a credit card number.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Randy B. Singer, post: 1793936, member: 190607"] You may not be able to, because despite appearances there is no malware on your computer. There has been a social engineering exploit going around for a while now, and it is pushed out via compromised advertising networks. So what you are seeing is basically a malicious ad. When these things first came out they had the ability to make it appear that your browser was frozen, but Apple has kept them from being able to do that in recent versions of Safari. It is now pretty easy to just ignore these scam warnings when you see them. I've written an entire article about this, and how to deal with it: Scary Internet Scam Becoming Disturbingly Common [url]https://tidbits.com/2015/07/07/scary-internet-scam-becoming-disturbingly-common/[/url] The most important things to remember are to NEVER call a phone number included in one of these scams, and NEVER click on a link included in one of these scams....and if you ignore the preceding NEVER EVER EVER give any "tech support" or other entity remote access to your computer. That's how they really get you. And NEVER EVER EVER give them any sort of payment, especially a credit card number. [/QUOTE]
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