Got a suspicious email from these guys claiming I am entitled to some grant for being a good citizen. I would receive the money if I were to pay a processing fee of $150 through paypal. DO NOT MAKE ANY PAYMENTS OR GIVE THEM ANY PERSONAL DETAILS. Seems like a scam from the Philippines or some Asian country. Watch out people, steer clear of this one.

Got same message that my laptop had viruses. Rang the number and was suspicious - wanting to take control of my computer- beware

Message on my laptop appearing to be from Microsoft Security Essentials, pop-up box that wouldn't go away until I did ctrl+alt+del. it was asking me to call this number. glad I looked here first - thanks all.

A friend was just contacted by these people claiming to be from Microsoft Support. His computer was behaving strangely before the call, so he thought it was legitimate, but then became suspicious when they connected to his laptop and said that Kaspersky Antivirus is no good, and that he should by a USD$400 alternative. It is a SCAM!

Typical "technical support" scam, will ask you to install a rootkit and remote access software on your machine so they can "fix" it. Spoiler: they aren't going to fix anything. Interesting: this phone number is the same for the contact number for this website: http://www.australiangovernmentgrantsloans.org Appears to be "genuine", but it's only been registered since December 2014...

same thing. telling me computer under virus threat etc. also receiving advises to ring (02) 8417 2373

Used MS Edge and an ad.click tab opened up which then produced a pop-up window saying: This Site says... System Detected Security Error, Due to Suspicious Activity Found On Your Computer. Contact System Certified Live Technicians 1-800-764-708 (Toll Free) Unable to get Edge working again I rang it and was told there is a one off fee. I said the OS is free, the fix will be free. The "tech" argued with me so I knew it was a scam straight away.

Does anyone know how to get rid of this virus/pop up garbage been going on for a few weeks now, I've done resets, got rid of programs that look suss, now I can't do anything with out it coming up, as well as this DNS locker and metro ads rubbish... Please help! :(

close the other internet windows, then ctrl, alt, delete to bring up task manager and end it with that

Thank you everyone for their story

got the same as above told to ring 1800 764 708 couldn't remove it with ctrl alt delete the then disconected the internet then ctrl ait delete that got rid of it...

To get rid of this garbage, End Task under Processes tab "Play thru Player 32 bit" in task manager (ctrl alt del) then delete the following folder and its contents c:Program Files (x86)PlaythruPlayer Clear your browser history and caches.

Just got the same message pop up when using internet browser Chrome! was suspicious and google the number and found complaints by other people who received the same message! Does anybody know how to get rid of the messages/pop ups?

got message to ring as my computer was under attack.....?