Got a call from Fraudster - 253-802-0308. "Fraudster" sounded suspicious, so I acted and talked like a not very experienced user. Her accent was very hard to understand. She wanted me to go to Event Viewer (eventvwr.exe), which is safe, then to Application Log, and had me tell her how many entries (over 2000). Then she claimed that those were problems that needed to be cleaned up. (As an experienced VB applications programmer who has coded to put entries into the Applications Log, I became very suspicious.) Then she wanted me to go to www.esup.me. Now I'm even more suspicious! I ask her, "Isn't ".me" a country other than the US?" "Is it Mexico?" (only country that came to mind -- turns out it is Montenegro, see: http://domain.me/about-me/) She kept saying that "esup.me" is something that their web designers had built. She then suggested that I go to "www.teqfly.com". I challenged her as to why she wanted me to go to a ".me" web site and now she wanted me to go to a ".com" web site. She finally suggested that I call 877-764-5405 to confirm her info and that she would call back in a few minutes. She didn't call back.
I kept her on the phone for about 50 minutes and I figure I kept her from about 10 other computer users and protected them from her.
Paid shills are funny. IT solutions is not legit. Microsoft does not get involved in this and computers do not send error messages to Microsoft. Besides, how would they know your phone number?