{"id":65,"date":"2018-05-18T17:15:14","date_gmt":"2018-05-18T21:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wwwebbit.com\/blog\/?p=65"},"modified":"2021-08-21T20:38:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T00:38:12","slug":"please-click-on-this-link-or-well-shoot-this-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wwwebbit.com\/blog\/please-click-on-this-link-or-well-shoot-this-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Please Click on This Link or We’ll Shoot This Dog!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I was reminded today of an issue I see all the time and that’s what happens when you click on those cute photo-essays about why your dog follows you into the bathroom or “You Won’t Believe what the Feral Kid from Mad Max looks like”!<\/p>\n

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I have a dog that follows me around so in a moment of weakness I clicked on one of those links and a few images in I got the dreaded “Contact our certified Windows Technicians for Immediate Assistance” windows that prevents you from closing your browser an warns it will “disable your computer” if you try to. Well, I usually use a Mac, so that\u2019s no biggie, but the browser\u2019s still frozen.<\/p>\n

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Don’t worry, they can’t disable your computer. The trick is to get you to call and get your credit card number so they can pretend to fix your PC or Mac, in some cases installing key logger programs on PCs so they can steal your banking info.<\/p>\n

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There is simple way to disable that problem on Macs and PCs without calling though:<\/p>\n

On a Mac:<\/p>\n

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