PSA: Malware / Ransomware

[Fly Rod]

I had some sort of attack a couple weeks ago...looking something up on computer and wham up pops this notice with microsoft heading... kept flashingflashing call this number tried clicking off a dozen times would not undo....called number they wanted to sell me a Defender product for 500 bucks...told them i would call them back....all I did was restart computer everything was fine....had to B a scam.... mentioned to friends at coffee and one said he got it too on business computer, he paid and thought for a minute and called bank to cancel the payment...he got money back.....