• Patch Lady – would you fall for this?

    Posted on September 20, 2018 at 19:10 CDT by • Comment in the Forums

    Chantal Bosse posted this up on a forum I’m a member of and it’s the first time I’ve seen a scam site use Microsoft logos so overtly.

    Chantal indicated that she was doing research on Edge and followed a forum link to find out more.  The link sent her to a bogus pop up web site.

    She was able to get into the task manager and kill Edge and get her machine back without harm.  Another way to reset the browser is to follow this advice in resetting and deleting certain files.  That’s one very nice thing about Edge, it’s much easier to nuke it out, kill the instance and not get taken over.

    But seeing this site use the logos and fonts of Microsoft so successfully makes me wonder how many of us would fall for this?

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