After that guy bakes his Christmas shortbreads - save the tin foil! He's going to need it. I guess today is 'Crazy Wednesday'. OK then: This site is owned by one of the following-
(a) The staff at Moe's Bar
(b) The Freakazoid
(c) The people who are trying to recover their money from "Heaven's Gate"
(d) Charles Foster Kane
(e) Elvis
They pose as windows tech support THEY ARE NOT!!! Mom fell for it and was going along with it, they had her load up "team Viewer" got into her comp before I knew what was going on. Then tried to get her to western union $250 to them and they would send someone out the next day to fix the comp. Mom was headed to the store to do it. I caught the call, told them they were scammers. they argued that they were legit. Finally they told me if they didnt get the cash, they would crash her computer in 2 hours. Mom was trying to work with them still and they backed out of the 2 hour crash, I got back on and they continued the crash line. I killed the Team Viewer session and started closing crap they had open. I came across the encrypt disk dialog. Seems what they were doing was encrypting the disk, that way everything gets locked trashing the disk. No password, no disk, no comp. I am now in the process of backing up the disk while it is still up. Hopefully this will work, DO NOT FALL FOR THIS!!!
After that guy bakes his Christmas shortbreads - save the tin foil! He's going to need it. I guess today is 'Crazy Wednesday'. OK then: This site is owned by one of the following-
(a) The staff at Moe's Bar
(b) The Freakazoid
(c) The people who are trying to recover their money from "Heaven's Gate"
(d) Charles Foster Kane
(e) Elvis
Pretended to be from windows support and told me that my computer is submitting error codes via the internet and that they needed to clear their servers. They messed with the wrong person . I'm a aspiring programmer so I can tell there are no error codes and second of all he did not talk professionally. I even got threatened that if I don't go to my computer and follow his directions he would shut my computer down right away lol. I cussed him out for a good 5 minutes and hung up on him.
They called today, no voice mail., but voices on the background. When I searched the number and found this I realized I had them before. Same thing, "We are authorized by Microsoft to fix your computer, It is broadcasting to the internet error codes". And asked to type some commands on my computer and asked me how many errors were logged there, blah, blah, blah. Anyway, the guy threatened me that my computer was going to die on a couple of hours if I didn't do what he said...
I cut the modem connection and checked for new files on the system and uninstalled/deleted them. My computer is still running after, maybe year and a half.
Hackers or scammers.