''1-888-398-0888" Technical Support Scam Removal Guide

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Researchers working at 411-spyware.com say that the majority of users encounter ''1-888-398-0888" Technical Support Scam after they open a malicious attachment from an email received. It is no longer a secret that attachments might drop malware on PCs, but users still tend to open them out of curiosity. This is, actually, a huge mistake they make. You should quit this bad habit today if you do not want to encounter even more serious malicious applications in the near future. No, the malicious application that has opened the fake security alert on your screen is definitely not the only one that can be encountered after opening a malicious email attachment. We suspect that you are not the most experienced user if you are reading this article, so we also highly recommend that you install a security application on your PC so that those infections you do not recognize yourself could not slither onto your computer without your knowledge.

''1-888-398-0888" Technical Support Scam does not have a point of execution, which means that you will not find a fake warning opened on your screen again after the system restart unless you launch the malicious file again. It does not mean that you can keep this file on your system because you can launch it accidentally again. Even though you do not know how it is called, we are sure you will get rid of it by deleting all recently downloaded files. You could do that only after you close the opened window.

How to get rid of ''1-888-398-0888" Technical Support Scam

1. Tap Alt+F4 to close the fake security alert.
2. Delete all suspicious files downloaded recently.
3. Empty Trash.