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Posted: 15:59 - 24 May 2018 Post subject: Hacked by Microsoft |
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Someone I know got one of those Indian phone calls from 'Microsoft' telling them their computer was infected, and they went along with it for a while As far as I can tell the only thing they did was put the laptop into airplane mode (the guy apparently said they were disabling their modem ), but I've disabled remote connection.
Malware bytes and Windows malicious software tool hasn't found anything but is there anything else I need to check for? It sounds like Indian chappy was trying to convince them they had a virus but they hung up before buying anything. |
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Pete. Super Spammer
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Posted: 18:23 - 24 May 2018 Post subject: |
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A friend's auntie had this recently. They installed logmein and went into her online banking tried to transfer 2 grand. The bank put a stop on it. I spent a long long time going through her laptop. ____________________ a.k.a 'Geri'
132.9mph off and walked away. Gear is good, gear is good, gear is very very good |
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Posted: 23:21 - 24 May 2018 Post subject: |
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Not sure if serious but I'm not doing all that The laptop had some remote access stuff already setup from another unofficial tech support guy, I'm wondering if Mr Microsoft just used that. The other odd thing was she reckoned they knew her 'license ID', and showed me a 32 digit key they'd written down, although I couldn't work what it was meant to be. |
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Posted: 23:34 - 24 May 2018 Post subject: |
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Formating the laptop won't take long. |
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Re-installing all their shit will |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 5 years, 331 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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