It happened to me once and I discovered it because I have a couple email accounts and one of them started messaging the other. Changing the password fixed it.

The pop up he is posting about is not a virus, it is a runstart program that is corrupting the start up of your computer. It is placed there maliciously by someone trying to scam you. It is illegally attached to a website. They want you to call the # and they represent themselves as a Microsoft support company. They will offer to fix the problem for a few hundred dollars. Most times they just take your money by credit card and do nothing for you. This corrupt program attaches to open before the start up of your system, that is why it does not come up on a virus scan. It randomly pops up and locks your computer up until you force a shut down.

I am posting this because I have had this same thing come up twice while on this site. My computer repair guy showed me where it was and removed it.

Maybe the mods can find a way to block or remove it from this site.

I had no idea you were a hacker.:eek:

The idiots just called again 5 minutes ago. This time it was a female.

next time ask her if she is a lesbo,lol.

I get those calls all the time on my home phone. Bunch of scammers trying to get you to give remote access.

It's actually entertaining when you have a Virtual Machine, and you let them have access, while you are Effing with them the whole time time, and handing all the evidence/artifacts over to your employer who is in the security business.

I got a few too. [email protected]

That's someone over in China '"spoofing" me to try and get you (recipients) to click on their malicious links or downloads; attempting to build your trust by thinking it's me sending the emails. I checked out the domain, and can't even report it. This is called "spear-phishing" in the cybersecurity community.

Just mark them as SPAM in your email program.

The one I got from Fred Cecil is from [email protected]