Windows 10: Microsoft Defender 805 308-7948 keeps taking over my computer, they are scammers, how do i...

These scammers tried to get me once and failed but keep trying. I thought Microsoft protected me! They keep sending me messages that no viruses or threat were found and 3 minutes before my screen was pre-empted by "Microsoft Defender" same phone number every time. Why can't they be shut down if using same number over and over.

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Defender keeping from connecting to network computer

Hi,

I realize that Windows Defender is not letting you to connect the laptop to the desktop pc. I will try to help you with this issue.

Please answer these questions to get more clarity on this issue:

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  Did you make any changes to the laptop or the desktop prior to this issue?
  
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  Have you installed all pending updates on the laptop as well as the desktop pc?
  

Suggest you to follow these steps on the laptop to check if that helps:

I suggest you to sign out from the current user account, restart the computer and then sign in to the Admin account to check if this helps.

Some problems can be fixed by signing out of your account and then signing back in. Press Ctrl+Alt+Delete and select Sign out. Once you’ve signed out, sign back in to your account.

Ensure to install any pending updates and also update all device drivers to check if this helps.
Updates are additions to software that can help prevent or fix problems, improve how your computer works, or enhance your computing experience.

Once this is done you may also repeat the same steps on the desktop pc to check if that helps.

Keep us informed to help you further.

 

Microsoft scammers

Yes, that should be enough.

Probably you saw something similar to what is described here:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-your-computer-has-been-locked-popup-scam

All these kind of pop ups are fake alerts. Your PC is NOT infected.

Do NOT call the phone-number which is displayed in that fake alert.

It leads to scammers who try to trick you into giving them access to your computer, to steal your passwords etc and to sell you their unneeded services etc.

Please carefully read the following article which explains in detail how to get rid of such pop ups and what to do if you keep on seeing them:

• Beware of Phony Emails & Tech Support Scams

In addition suggestion to read:

• https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/threats/support-scams
• Best Practices for Safe Computing - Prevention of Malware Infection

 

Better free alternative to microsoft defender?

Windows Defender, Bill?

Yeah. Same thing. Definitions to stay up to date on threats of course, but thats really just a list of tricks and signatures.

You don't have to be. You just have to be smart enough to break their shit. You can take it apart and reverse engineer it and marvel later (I was impressed by a clients just recently). It's not hard to be up to date enough to keep malware a.) mostly off your machine in the first place and b.) limit it's damage when it does appear to your machine via network and best practices.

Some may call my approach inconvienient, but it DOES work.