An update posted last month, however, says the bug resurfaced with the release of Chrome 67 and is actively being exploited. Later updates in the same thread showed that other users were also experiencing browser freezes.
The most important thing to remember when encountering a browser window displaying a tech-support scam message is to not panic and to never call the phone numbers displayed. When all else fails, the browsers can almost always be unlocked by using the Windows Task Manager (control-alt-delete) or the macOS Force Quit feature (Apple menu).
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Last year, Google announced some upgrades to Chrome, by far the world’s most used browser—and the one security pros often recommend. The company promised to make internet surfing on Windows computers even “cleaner” and “safer ” adding what The Verge called “basic antivirus features.” What Google did was improve something called Chrome Cleanup Tool for Windows users, using software from cybersecurity and antivirus company ESET.
In practice, Chome on Windows looks through your computer in search of malware that targets the Chrome browser itself using ESET’s antivirus engine. If it finds some suspected malware, it sends metadata of the file where the malware is stored, and some system information, to Google. Then, it asks you to for permission to remove the suspected malicious file. (You can opt-out of sending information to Google by deselecting the “Report details to Google” checkbox.)
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Chrome users may have to shut off resume from last use setting or it may end up on the same web page again!The most important thing to remember when encountering one of these windows is to not panic and to never call the phone numbers displayed in the warnings. When all else fails, the browsers can almost always be unlocked by using the Windows Task Manager (control-alt-delete) or the macOS Force Quit feature (Apple menu).
To recover, people on Windows machines generally use the Windows Task Manager to terminate the browser processes. After a period of inactivity, macOS will show Chrome users a system message reporting that the open browser tab has become unresponsive and give users the option to close it. This is generally a more attractive option than the one available to Windows users, because it involves closing only the abusive page. Manually shutting down the entire browser risks losing any unsaved work contained in any open windows.
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