Was this an attempted scam?

Ganga

Whilst on my laptop ( windows 10 ) this morning looking at items on Amazon UK ( a new dressing table for my grandaughter ) also on Amazon DE as the item she wants is shipped from Germany so thought it might be cheaper to purchase in Germany, Anyway all of a sudden the screen changed and it started blaring out a warning that my computer had been accessed and was in Windows Lockdown with the message being repeated ,the voice was female and American sounding telling me not to try and switch off and contact Windows on a Toll Free Number ,sorry did not write it down, i managed to switch my machine off.
I then re-started it and ran Malwarebytes which found no problems and then ran Windows full scan, took nearly aan hour but again found no problems.
So have i been scammed/attempted to scam etc.  any help greatly appreciated.

dan958

Sounds like it was just a pop-up spam window. Were you definitely just on Amazon?
Install an adblocker.

J_B

dan958 said:

Sounds like it was just a pop-up spam window. Were you definitely just on Amazon?
Install an adblocker.

I use uBlock Origin

Ganga

Thanks for the replies, does uBlock work ok with Windows 10 ?

Ganga

Sorry it was definitely Amazon UK and Amazon DE.

J_B

Ganga said:

Thanks for the replies, does uBlock work ok with Windows 10 ?

yup

DoaM

Ganga said:

does uBlock work ok with Windows 10 ?

It also works with anyone's favourite flavour of Linux ... it's a browser plugin that works on later Chromium and Firefox based browsers (and probably some others).

Ganga

Thanks for all the replies/help ,can i ask how many people are using this program ? being an old git i am loath to download anything to my computer that causes more problems than it cures

DoaM

I'm using uBlock Origin in my Chrome, Firefox and Edge browsers. The added benefit is that you can apply custom filters which make the MSE forum much more usable ... mine are as below:

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forums.moneysavingexpert.com##.SecondaryPanel
forums.moneysavingexpert.com##.MainContent.Content:style(width: 99% !important)
forums.moneysavingexpert.com##.Container:style(max-width: 100%  !important)
forums.moneysavingexpert.com##.MainFooter.Footer
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askeym

Just in case it downloaded a nasty of which you are unaware it's worth running another two Malwarebyte apps adwcleaner_8.0.5 and their rootkit one mbar-antirootkit. They're perfectly safe.

John_Gray

Another vote for uBlock Origin (there are different versions with slightly different names...) to which I add Ghostery, on Firefox.