Re: OT: ARRRGHHHH

In article <m0gth55i48mi9sqejdiufk9c5m56nb09m7@xxxxxxx>, ubehappy2day@xxxxxxxxx says...

On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:04:46 -0500, Happy <ubehappy2day@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

Was merrily browsing the net yesterday when, inspite of having a
decent firewall/anti-virus/anti-spyware protection I got hit by the
insidious Enterprise Security malware - ARRRGHHHH!!! Spent most of
afternoon, evening getting rid of it, fixing my registry, doing a
system restore (restored the Sunday's Checkpoint) had to do this in a
certain order before the system would allow a restore. This bugger
deletes task manager out your registry making it non-functioning
(therefore making it more difficult to delete the running malware
process), deletes key files out of your av/as software - not only
disabling it but also making it extremely difficult to delete,
identifies itself to Windows as the av/as software, attempts to hide
its directory and make the files read-only - been a long time since I
used the command prompt and attrib commands. And of distributes its
files to several different places (thanks Windows - I remember good
old DOS days where a program was in ONE place).

I was in a mood anyway and was d e t e r m i n e d to fix this without
doing a whole laptop recovery and reload - hey, I'm lying here anyway.
So I'm pattin' myself on the back.

I'm just glad I didn't fall for their trickery - their poor use of
English "Save Now only 60%" for the Lifetime subsciption - gave them
away and pay for the program to guaranteed to remove the 20 critical
trojan horse viruses that their scan falsely reported.

Bunch of alf;'o237$%^&1!!!

Happy

This is a veerrryyy strange coincidence - maybe you techie/sleuthy
guys can clue me in...after yesterday's little hit...

This afternoon I get a call an accented fellow says he's calling in
response to my computer problem. Because I've called noone, I say
"What computer problem". He says, "Your virus". Other than here, and
you all don't know my phone number, I say "What virus"? he says,"Your
Dell rep asked me to call"? I use a Sony so I say "You were
misinformed" He says "Well, hopefully your computer is infected..." I
cut him off and say, incredulously "HOPEFULLY my computer is
infected"?????? He says"Can I do a free scan" and I say "No." he
hangs up.

Caller ID say melvin (all lowercase) (209) 642-xxxx which I called
back and asked for the company name. Melvin answered and before
answering the question wanted to know who was calling. I said I just
wanted to know his company name. He replied "something (I couldn't get
because of his accent" technical support" I asked where he gets his
clients. He says "the white pages" , which, is suppose, is
technically accurate...

So is yesterday and this phone call related? How could it NOT be? Oh
well, I'm only out some time at this point and senses are
heightened...

Happy

I agree that the 2 incidents seem related. If I get a call like that the first thing I say
is goodbye. I don't go any further because even yes or no is more information than I'm going
to give.

One thing I've done is buy a magicjack phone adapter to connect to my computer. True if your
computer is down so is the phone but I use my cellphone for most of my calling any way. I
don't take calls from anyone I don't know on my cell. I got a call yesterday from someone
that said he was sending me $120 in free gas coupons. His wording was to make me think he
was from my credit card company but now that I think of it I don't remember is he said he
actually worked for them or not but he did know the last 4 digits on the credit card. He
started telling me he was sending some additional offers along with the freebies. Soon as he
said that I stopped him and told him I don't take ANY solicitations on my cell, thank you
goodbye. As I hit the call end he was still talking. Point of this rambling is that I do not
hesitate to end a call. I try to be somewhat polite but just because they are talking
doesn't mean I have to listen.

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