Many are the users who have suffered throughout their lives the blue screen of death, that screen that was shown randomly on our Windows PC when we were performing some important task that unfortunately we had not recorded previously and that automatically generated the restart of the computer without being able to do absolutely nothing to avoid it. Not even Bill Gates got rid of this screen when he officially introduced Windows 98. Fortunately, this screen hardly continues to appear in the latest versions of Windows that Microsoft has launched on the market, but to keep it alive in memory a group of hackers is taking advantage of it.
The use that they are giving to this screen is to carry out online scams. The user, who has previously been infected by the Hicurdismos.A malware, will see a screen similar to the image above appears on their computer screen, modified and adding a phone number they should call to fix the problem. Of course, you have to have your credit card at hand. To try to make it as real as possible, this malware disables both the mouse and the task manager to prevent us from trying to close the window. Everything is thought out.
This malware can reach our computer camouflaged as if it were Microsoft Security Essentials. Keep in mind that from Windows 8 Microsoft integrates this antivirus natively, so there is no need to pay any attention to the warning messages informing that we are unprotected and that they offer us to download this application.
To prevent any contagion not only from this but from any malware, we must pay attention to the security messages that Windows shows us every time we download a file. In them we are informed if the developer is trusted or if, on the contrary, it has not been verified. In addition, we must take into account where we have downloaded the file in question. If the website is known there should be no problem. However, if it has been downloaded from the web pages of links, we can erase it.