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Is 1-888-447-4192 a genuine phone number or a scam number?

Feb 19, 2016 12:12AM PST

Recently, I keep getting a a popup that said there was a security issue and that he needed to call a number 1-888-447-4192 for Windows Firewall Service. Should I trust it? Is 1-888-447-4192 a genuine phone number?

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Re: phone
Feb 19, 2016 12:58AM PST

If you can call it, it's an existing phone number, so in that sense it's real. But no doubt it's a scam, either designed to have you pay for nothing or for installing malware on your PC. Don't call.

If that popup comes from a site you visit: better don't visit that site anymore.
If that popup comes from a program installed on your computer: remove it by running the right antivirus or antilmalware program. If you don't know how, post again.

Kees

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SCAM.
Feb 19, 2016 10:16AM PST

Any pop like this is now a scam.