Hardware & Technical New scam alert! If you you find a BSOD error on Chrome, don't do what it asks you to do.

[AluminumAlloy]

Early this morning, a few desperate-for-money hackers from yet again India or China just released a widespread html rerouting digger scam infection that makes you go to a different page than the page you clicked on. It will show a BSOD-like error claiming that your computer is in "critical condition" and will ask you to call a telephone number. It will force you to stay on the page and you won't be able to close it. To close it, just go to your task manager and click end process.

Apparently, Chrome's default anti-deception wasn't able to block this. If you have a scam insight/anti-phising software, I strongly suggest you turn it on if you are going to visit sites you have never visited before until there's verification that it's removed. Good luck, commanders.

 

[Patrick_68000]

Thanks for the information. Can help

 

[Brian of Earth]

Early this morning, a few desperate-for-money hackers from yet again India or China just released a widespread html rerouting digger scam infection that makes you go to a different page than the page you clicked on. It will show a BSOD-like error claiming that your computer is in "critical condition" and will ask you to call a telephone number. It will force you to stay on the page and you won't be able to close it. To close it, just go to your task manager and click end process.

Apparently, Chrome's default anti-deception wasn't able to block this. If you have a scam insight/anti-phising software, I strongly suggest you turn it on if you are going to visit sites you have never visited before until there's verification that it's removed. Good luck, commanders.

I would download this onto a jump drive, keep it handy. Run it from the jump drive if you are infected.

I've used this on a hopelessly infected machine (my poor sister couldn't afford a free anti-virus program??). It gets you your machine back and tells you what it killed so you can go about removing it.

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/rkill/

Sadly these viruses can really trash your registry, so, get into the habit of creating a restore point every so often..

 

[Asp Explorer]

Even better - do all your browsing and downloading on a virtual machine. Many nasties detect this and don't bother executing. If they do - just restore the virtual machine.