mickey megabyte said:

whatever next?

people offering to come round to your house to install viruses - and get paid for it?

Well, have you ever installed Norton?

While this is really funny, it's also nothing new.
I have considered Norton to be a (albeit "safe") virus for a while now, this just shows that someone recognized a good idea.

~Lordbob

Lomai said:

Well, have you ever installed Norton?

While this is really funny, it's also nothing new.
I have considered Norton to be a (albeit "safe") virus for a while now, this just shows that someone recognized a good idea.

~Lordbob

If you have ever been into Best Buy, they charge a boatload to install it.

Why would I pay someone to install a virus on my computer when I could do it for free myself?

And of course, paying them to remove it later.

Those guys are geniuses!

~Lordbob

mickey megabyte said:

whatever next?

people offering to come round to your house to install viruses - and get paid for it?

There is a scam running in Australia (probably other countries too) where they actually ring you up and tell you they have 'found that your computer is infected and for a fee will remove it remotely'.

They straight out ask for your credit card or bank account login details in order 'to remove the virus remotely'.

Once the gullible have handed over their details, the victim follows all the step-by-step instructions and once done, they then remote into your computer and infect you by installing keyloggers, trojans etc


At the first sign of encountering someone who is not naive, they hang up immediately.

So not quite door to door, but pretty damn close...

smarteyeball said:

mickey megabyte said:

whatever next?

people offering to come round to your house to install viruses - and get paid for it?

There is a scam running in Australia (probably other countries too) where they actually ring you up and tell you they have 'found that your computer is infected and for a fee will remove it remotely'.

They straight out ask for your credit card or bank account login details in order 'to remove the virus remotely'.

Once the gullible have handed over their details, the victim follows all the step-by-step instructions and once done, they then remote into your computer and infect you by installing keyloggers, trojans etc


At the first sign of encountering someone who is not naive, they hang up immediately.

So not quite door to door, but pretty damn close...

~Lordbob

smarteyeball said:

mickey megabyte said:

whatever next?

people offering to come round to your house to install viruses - and get paid for it?

There is a scam running in Australia (probably other countries too) where they actually ring you up and tell you they have 'found that your computer is infected and for a fee will remove it remotely'.

They straight out ask for your credit card or bank account login details in order 'to remove the virus remotely'.

Once the gullible have handed over their details, the victim follows all the step-by-step instructions and once done, they then remote into your computer and infect you by installing keyloggers, trojans etc


At the first sign of encountering someone who is not naive, they hang up immediately.

So not quite door to door, but pretty damn close...

This is quite prevalant in the UK at the moment. they phone you up claiming to be Microsoft and "prove" it by telling you that all the "warnings" in Event Viewer are viruses. I know Corrine has a link to a technet post on it, I can't find it at the moment

DrWho said:

Lomai said:

Lordbob75 said:

Well, have you ever installed Norton?

While this is really funny, it's also nothing new.
I have considered Norton to be a (albeit "safe") virus for a while now, this just shows that someone recognized a good idea.

~Lordbob

The most valuable program ever put out by Symantec is the "Norton Removal Tool".
I use it on every call to any computer that I've never worked on before.

I made a service call to a lady's house one day, where Norton AV was telling her it found a virus but could not remove it. She had just paid good money for an update to Norton AV, so she was livid (extremely MAD).
After getting her permission, I disabled Norton, installed AVG FREE and did a full scan of her HD. AVG found and removed the one virus that Norton said it could not remove, then AVG found and removed another 150 more viruses. At that point the lady was on the phone to Symantec demanding her money back. She's still running AVG Free. Her PC actually ran better after I fully removed Norton.

Just a little trip down memory lane....

It's really funny how often you hear that story. But there is never a story with MSE messing up, and installing Norton to remove and fix it....

~Lordbob