I was just looking up things on Chrome and hit a page that sent me to a page I did not chose to go to with a warning to contact Microsoft, along with a phone number saying my computer had been infected. It locked the browser and nothing worked.


I don't know what kind of scam thing this is or if it is a virus hack, but I got out of it by using the "control, alt, delete" command, looking at services running and closing Chrome that way. The forced closure brings up a fresh chrome asking do I want to restore old session. I said NO - so it's all good but I wanted to pass this on if anyone else gets it. 

Marge Pauls
I've had this happen several times, and figure since I already have Windows Defender up-to-date, it's a scam. I simply right-clicked the Chrome icon on my taskbar, clicked "close window" then shut down the computer. Waited 10 minutes and turned it back on--works fine, no viri.
  • February 19, 2016
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This one locked the browser. Clicking the close tab didn't do anything. Nothing worked on the browser commands and it was just locked there open and on top of everything.
  • February 20, 2016
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Marge Pauls
Mine locked the browser, too. I could only close it from the task bar where I had pinned it. Otherwise I'd just shut 'er down!
  • February 20, 2016
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Mine was frozen so as that even that couldn't be done!
  • March 6, 2016
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