Go to any website you want to on Windows Phone. You are safe.
How are you so sure?
I ran into this scareware this morning on my Lumia 1020, but I stupidly did click the x on the first pop-up message, which was just some garbled text, followed by the usual alert and then the Google play link for the android app. My phone appears to be working fine, but should I be taking any precautions?
On a related note, the "Placebo Antivirus" app I built has been downloaded over 148000 times. Go figure...
You think people would notice that the apps like that don't do anything. -__- I'm hoping that with windows 10 there will be more apps submitted that are actual apps which people shouldn't feel ashamed to use which will push apps like that down and they will eventually fade into oblivion.
Maybe someday there will be an adblocker built in anyway, like iOS 9 is pushing for. (if there is one already, I'm sorry, please point me towards it!).
Then again, when that happens, ad companies will find ways around it and do different things.
Ad blocking is a difficult subject anyway. Websites need it to stay afloat, but it is not good for end consumers normally.
On a related note, the "Placebo Antivirus" app I built has been downloaded over 148000 times. Go figure...
Yes, I originally made it as an inside joke, but it grew from there. It's probably about time for an update. Seeing how popular it's become, if I knew how, I could load it with ads. But I have no desire to do that.
Dude I went to a website . When I went it said that the website is not secure . Now I am scared that is my phone hacked or has malwares . Please help.me .You can't get malware from the web on a windows phone. What you got is a popup scare tactic and browser redirect to buy some android software off the google play store, nothing more.