Porn Virus Detected Microsoft Support Scam Removal Guide

Do you know what Porn Virus Detected Microsoft Support Scam is?

Porn Virus Detected Microsoft Support Scam may appear in your browser while you are peacefully surfing the web. This fake alert page and its pop-up windows may convince you that there is a dangerous threat on your computer that may steal sensitive information and cause further system damage. This page may even strike you as an authentic Microsoft warning page; however, our researchers say that it is all fake. As a matter of fact, this fake alert is a technical support scam that reminds us of "Windows Defender Prevented An Unrecognized Software fake alert" and "Your Computer Has Been Locked To Prevent Damage fake alert," which both belong to this same threat category. Since such a fake warning can be rather convincing for inexperienced computer users, they would probably feel scared enough to call the toll-free telephone number promoted by this fake alert. However, if you do not want to spend your hard-earned dollars on rogue security software or service, we suggest that you remove Porn Virus Detected Microsoft Support Scam from your computer as soon as possible.

If you see this fake alert page and its pop-up alerts, you must have been redirected to this page somehow. There are two scenarios fundamentally. First, your computer could be infected with adware programs, browser hijackers, or potentially unwanted programs, which all may be capable of such redirections. It is possible that you have installed a freeware bundle recently and this is how you infected your computer with such a lot. A bundle can carry several different kinds of threats, including the ones we have mentioned, Trojans, keyloggers, and more. You can drop such a bundle when you use suspicious torrent or freeware pages for downloading free software, when you click on unsafe third-party advertisements on suspicious websites, or when your computer is infected. If there is a chance that this describes your situation, we suggest that you run a reliable online malware scanner right after you delete Porn Virus Detected Microsoft Support Scam from your PC.

Second, it is also a possibility that you simply click on a corrupt link provided by a questionable search engine or on a third-party advertisement (pop-up or banner) generated by a shady website. You need to be very careful while surfing the web if your PC is not protected by an up-to-date anti-malware program because one click on the wrong content can result in such a redirection or even in downloading infections or bundles in the background without your knowledge. If you are lucky enough not to have any infections on your system right now, it may be enough for you to exit your browser to remove Porn Virus Detected Microsoft Support Scam; although, we are a bit skeptical about this and advise you to scan your system as soon as possible with a reputable malware scanner.

This fake alert uses two toll-free numbers, "+1-844-786-8921" and "1-800-953-457," to provide you supposed technical support. You are pushed to call these numbers immediately. This "pushing" is done by using a webpage that looks very much like an authentic Microsoft support page and using claims that your system has been infected with a porn virus and it may be able compromise your social networking accounts and steal other personal information like your banking details. This should normally scare any inexperienced user enough to want to call the provided numbers right away. However, we advise you against it. As a matter of fact, this is a technical support scam, which means that you will not talk to any technicians really but a person who may try to get personally identifiable information from you, ask for remote access to your computer, and sell a worthless security application to you. We believe that you should not contact these schemers because you could be in more trouble than you may already be. We suggest that you remove Porn Virus Detected Microsoft Support Scam as soon as possible.

In order to eliminate this threat source we advise you to reset your browsers. This should take care of your redirection issue. However, it is also possible that you may need to uninstall recently installed questionable applications as well. You can do so by opening the installed programs list via Control Panel. Please follow our instructions below if you do not know how to reset your browsers. Hopefully, you understand now how easy it is to harm your system. Thus, you may want to start protecting your PC more effectively by using a reliable anti-malware program, such as SpyHunter.

Remove Porn Virus Detected Microsoft Support Scam from your browsers

Mozilla Firefox

  1. Tap Alt+H and choose Troubleshooting Information.
  2. Press Refresh Firefox.
  3. Press Refresh Firefox in the confirmation window.

Internet Explorer

  1. Tap Alt+T and open Internet Options.
  2. Select the Advanced tab and click Reset.
  3. Mark the Delete personal settings box and press Reset.
  4. Press Close.

Google Chrome

  1. Tap Alt+F and navigate to Settings.
  2. Click Advanced at the bottom.
  3. Click Reset at the bottom.
  4. Press Reset in the confirmation window.

In non-techie terms:

Porn Virus Detected Microsoft Support Scam is a new fake alert that can come up in your browser suddenly while you are surfing the web. You can end up on this fake alert page by clicking on the wrong third-party content on a suspicious website or if your computer is infected with potentially unwanted programs, browser hijackers, or adware applications. This fake alert wants to convince you that a certain porn virus has infected your computer and it can steal important personal information from you, such as social media account passwords and even credit card information. All the claims are there to make you call a toll-free telephone number which will be answered by allegedly Microsoft certified technician. Obviously, this is not true either. This fake alert is all about promoting a service or security software in an aggressive way. We suggest that you remove Porn Virus Detected Microsoft Support Scam right away. If you would like to protect your PC from all kinds of possible attacks, you may want to install a professional anti-malware program.