I second the advice to run Malwarebytes.Who knows what that program was that they made you download. Hopefully, not a rootkit or you'll be reformatting (never trust a rooted machine, ever). Most of the time these calls are cold calls. They love to throw around the name of your telephone company/potential ISP (or know ISP if it was triggered by Malware phoning home), Microsoft, Apple, McAfee, Symantec, etc. I've had a few of them and they always end up with loud, obnoxious remixes of Internet memes that never stop and probably start to destroy their phone headset if it's loud enough. If they re-dial, it immediately goes to that. In what might be a landmark decision for state and local law enforcement, the FBI has agreed to unlock an iPhone and iPod in an Arkansas murder case—a decision that will likely have agencies all over the country asking for help in similar cases. A hacker who goes by the handle of @TibitXimer has hacked the Verizon wireless database and downloaded the records of 3 Million customer. However, the hacker has leaked only 10 percent of the data, as technology giant failed to overcome the vulnerability. ![]() ![]() ![]() Spoofed and abusive numbers also go to the same nonsense. Ironically, the calls have stopped too. ' malwarebytes its a free software commenly used to scan for virus or malware' A very common misperception. All computer viruses are malware but not all malware are viruses. Computer viruses are a specific subset of malware that have the ability of replication. That means a computer or file that is infected can infect another computer or file automatically and without assistance. All too often I see people and the media calling all malicious software a 'virus' and this juat plain wrong. If the malicious code is able to self replicate then its a virus. If it is unable to self replicate and needs assistance such as the Vulnerability/Explotation vector or Social Engineering then its a trojan. Viruses are trojans are the two major sub-types of malware. There are times when MalwareBytes may detect and remove a virus dropper. However, if the virus has infected the computer MalwareBytes will be unable to deal with the actual infection. MalwareBytes actually does not target viruses. MalwareBytes targets non-viral malware and the alterations they make on a system. If a virus prepends, appends or cavity injects code into a legitimate file then the best MalwareBytes will be able to do is delete that infected file. MalwareBytes will be unable to remove the viral code such that the file will be returned to its original format, size and MD5 checksum. The process of returning an infected file to its original format, size and MD5 checksum is known as 'cleaning' a file and that is something MalwareBytes is unable to do. This is also true if a file has been trojanized (aka; patched). So the statement should be. ' MalwareBytes its a free software commenly used to scan for malware'. You can disagree with me all you want. There is no 'FBI virus'.
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