Hello,
I went onto IE on my WP8 phone to a site that gives solutions for the game "Flow" (I know, I'm a cheater) and got a message saying something along the lines of: "Microsoft Antivirus has found issues on you computer, you may need to clean your computer" or something like that. The only option to proceed was to press "OK" so I did. Next it asked if I wanted to leave the page or to cancel. Instead I went to home screen and searched another website I knew was safe and the message never popped up again. This was obviously a scam/malware something-or-other.
Has anyone ever seen a message like this before? I immediately assumed it to be malicious since WP8 does not have or even require an antivirus program. Does anybody know what could have caused this or if I should be concerned? Is WP8 not as safe as its lead on to be? Thanks.
I went onto IE on my WP8 phone to a site that gives solutions for the game "Flow" (I know, I'm a cheater) and got a message saying something along the lines of: "Microsoft Antivirus has found issues on you computer, you may need to clean your computer" or something like that. The only option to proceed was to press "OK" so I did. Next it asked if I wanted to leave the page or to cancel. Instead I went to home screen and searched another website I knew was safe and the message never popped up again. This was obviously a scam/malware something-or-other.
Has anyone ever seen a message like this before? I immediately assumed it to be malicious since WP8 does not have or even require an antivirus program. Does anybody know what could have caused this or if I should be concerned? Is WP8 not as safe as its lead on to be? Thanks.
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