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If someone named "katriki' posts a link on your page DON'T click it. It's most probably a hacker or virus. I just got a post that supposedly links to "girls with big boobs" (Ooooooo!). I checked out the Profile page and sure enough it's blank. BEWARE!!!
I also reported the comment as Spam.
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Maybe they just like stuff with hyphens in them.
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Having some computer experience, I saw through this scam right away when they tried it at my house. (LOL! When the caller and his "supervisor" realized the jig was up and they couldn't counter my questions, the original caller lost it and started screaming what I guess were obscenities at me in some east Indian dialect (?) before they hung up.)
My buddy who's not so computer savvy wasn't quite as lucky.
The call starts with some guy claiming to be from the "Windows XP" corporation ((LOL not Microsoft)). They try to spin ya a tale about how "The Windows company has received hundreds of complaints from YOUR ISP that your system has been infected by dozens of viruses and is spreading them across the Internet. They're team is employed by "Windows" to help you remove them. He will even get his "supervisor" on the line to "help explain". What they want is remote access to your system. They didn't seem to do any damage to my friend's machine, but they undoubtedly made a copy of any & all vital info they could. Luckily that friend didn't do any online shopping or banking. I did multiple passes with different scan tools and found no surprises left behind.
I still did a wipe/reloaded his system - a royal PITA, but as we both knew they were definitely in his system at one point, it was warranted in that case.
Forewarned is forearmed as the old saying goes.
LOL! or borrowing a line from the GI Joe cartoons, "Now ya know...and Knowing is half the battle."
There's 2 reasons right off the bat as to why they're claim is bogus:
1) LEGAL PROBLEMS. If they're claims were true, it would be a major violation of the privacy laws of many countries.
2) COST.
I mean really, Microsoft has how many Billions of customers now and they can afford to keeps tabs on what each machine is doing? This despite that fact that the user's ISP is dynamically reassigning IPs to many of them on the fly?
Now if it was the FBI, CIA or DHS I could see it, but Microsoft?
LOL! If MS were spending the manhours/computer time and the $$ doing stuff like that, Gates would have gone broke.
If someone calls claiming to be from WindowsXP (or even if they changed it to saying they're from Microsoft), Laugh and hang up.
They do try to make it seem legit; the caller will even give a bogus name and job title. The guys on the line will be doing their best not to give ya time to think about what they're saying. They will be telling you how they already know for a fact your computer has multiple viruses. They may even claim your ISP has told them service will be cut if you don't deal with this issue immediately.
If you say you'd like to call to confirm their claims, the guy will be quite agreeable, in fact he'll give you a phone # to call, supposedly to MS customer service.
It's amazing how fast thing change though when you tell them to wait a moment because you're already on yer cell with your ISP.
Suddenly, they'll say they can't wait as they only have a limited amount of time to spend your case.
If ya say you're on hold with the cybercrimes division of your local Police, the response is MUCH quicker.
CLICK... dial tone.