[writertiff]

I was on thesaurus.com and entered a word to look up a synonym and it popped up a long message saying I had to pay to unlock the computer.

Obviously I didn't but I have Windows 10 now and I don't know how to boot it into safe mode so I'm writing this from my iPhone.

Just ran malware bytes and it didn't find anything.

The message said something about not being protected and Microsoft. When I open uninstall programs I see that Microsoft office home and student was installed today. I didn't install that today. Is his what I need to uninstall? Isn't want it to get rid of my REAL ms home and office.

Help! I use his for my work and without it, we can't pay bills or anything.

 

UPDATE: I deleted MS Office and reinstalled. Turns out I went to thesaurus.NET not dot com - now installed adblock. Seems to be working. This post can be deleted unless you think I need to do anything else to clean up.

Edited by writertiff, 29 May 2016 - 10:16 AM.

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