
The criminals that are on the other end of the telephone line will try to trick you into believing that they are part of some sort of an official tech support team of Microsoft and say they are employees there. There could be plenty more phone numbers associated with this scam, depending on the URL addresses and landing pages involved. The phone number used with the 8vlxervercrush57report.tk/ket/ domain is the following: To make it sound more trustworthy, the scammers have put the Microsoft name as the supposed entity which has blocked the page or browser. The domain which is currently spreading a lot is 8vlxervercrush57report.tk/ket/.Īll of these technical support scams are shown with pop-ups as alerts and are trying to scare you into calling the phone number given on the page. The scam doesn’t differentiate much between the domains which are involved with it, but they use different phone numbers. Microsoft System Security Alert is one of a few messages related to a tech support scam.

Microsoft System Security Alert – In Depth To avoid installing any additional features could be done if you find Advanced or a Custom settings. These packages tend to have extra features selected for installation from the get-go.

Such websites usually come with third-party installations and freeware packages. Different software could cause the scareware to appear in your browsers or another related Microsoft Tech Support scam. One of the domains spreading this tech support scam is 8vlxervercrush57report.tk/ket/.įreeware applications, regarded as PUPs (potentially unwanted programs) could also distribute this sort of scam.

Other websites could be filled with advertisements and redirect links and you could land on a page which has the Microsoft System Security Alert message. That is the most common way in which this kind of a tech support scam can use for its spread. Clicking on advertisements or targeted content could have hidden links that redirect you to dubious online places.

Browsing the Web can be dangerous, especially when you reach new and unknown websites by causally browsing and they turn out to be malicious.
