Received a call from them today saying the same deal about my computer being messed up & sending out messages, etc. We have only MACs. I am sick with food poisoning & told the guy that when he said "how are you?" Obviously a scam, but what a jerk at an even lower level to persist when I am feeling so bad...
Hang up on them.
they claimed to be from Microsoft and that my computer was sending lots of "errors" and they wanted to "fix it for me". when I said that my computer was fine they hung up.
A man claiming to be with Microsoft said my computer was sending error messages and that they were blocking up their servers. He gave me a program to run, which was a web address, so he could run diagnostics on my machine. I did not run this program and got off the phone.
I'm in Louisville, KY and just got the same call (5/31/2012, 6:30 pm). Same story as above. Since I didn't have time to open my computer ('wink'"wink"), I got him to explain that I should Run "eventvwr" and click "ok and then I'd see the error messages. i asked him the name of the virus and he wouldn't tell me. he's calling back tommorow to help me 'fix" my computer.
I got the same call today from MIKE from Microsoft. LOL .... He wanted to take control of my computer and fix the errors... I told him I will call him back...