Watch Out for Schemes Related to Windows 10

Windows 10 has arrived and many are already downloading the new operating system. Your BBB® would like to remind you that with any new technology schemers are quick to follow up with emails, pop-ups, videos, and text messages offering shortcuts or other sites to download the upgrade from. These could lead an unsuspecting consumer to download viruses and/or malware instead of the upgrade.

If you haven’t heard by now, Windows 7 and 8.1 users, can upgrade to the new Windows 10 operating system for free for the next year. The new Windows 10 is a digital copy so it is sent to your computer directly from Microsoft as a Windows Update. Despite that fact, as early as February of this year, a blog on Malwarebytes.org was reporting multiple YouTube videos claiming to “activate” Windows 10 for your PC. However, the files being offered possibly contained viruses and malware.

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