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Re: [LUG] OT but one reson to convert to linux

 

On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:20:36 +0100
Paul Sutton wrote:

> On 19/07/10 18:58, kevin wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 18:28 +0100, Simon Robert wrote:
> >> On 14/07/10 16:33, kevin wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 16:12 +0100, Rob Beard wrote:
> >>>> On 14/07/10 15:06, kevin wrote:
> >>>>> Has any one had dealings with Team View 5?
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> <Snip>   from a Windows user
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>    Do you know anything about an outfit called TEAM VIEW? Every
> >>>>> time my machine crashes I am invited to tick a few boxes on a
> >>>>> pop-up. Sometimes I tick the boxes, sometimes I don't. I
> >>>>> thought that responses went to MicroSoft who sat on them.  We
> >>>>> receive telephone calls quite often, I am sure that they are
> >>>>> from India, offering to put things right. i now think that
> >>>>> these calls come a day or two after I have click the report
> >>>>> button. This afternoon I asked them a few questions. They are
> >>>>> called Team View 5 and they seemed to be leading me towards
> >>>>> getting software from them.When I was asked to click on RUN on
> >>>>> a download box I felt it unsafe to proceed further and backed
> >>>>> out. Are they genuine or are they selling anti virus software?
> >>>>> How do they get these reports?<snip/>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The machine crashes often and they have just extorted Â50 from
> >>>>> this user and was remotely vnc'd and was asked for the Admin
> >>>>> password The user got scared and refused.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The obviously have installed a vnc client on the machine, and
> >>>>> are looking for Â50 to remove some ".inf" files
> >>>>>
> >>>>> My advice was load Linux and tell them to pi$$ off
> >>>>>
> >>>>> any comments also appreciated.
> >>>>>
> >>>> Sounds like they have been subject to some sort of scam.  I've
> >>>> heard of things like "XP Anti-Virus" which was a popup which
> >>>> came up on a site saying that the user had a virus and was
> >>>> advised to install "XP Anti-Virus", and then the user is conned
> >>>> out of money to remove it.
> 
> is that the site that comes up with a nice java explorer window
> scanning c: etc for viruses,  even on Linux,
> 
> that looks really funny on Linux,  a decent programmer woudl at least
> write code to detect the os and display a window that looks like what
> the user is looking at in terms of user interface.

Why bother going to the extra effort to fool a few extra people who are
more than likely not going to be fooled anyway?  Write it to catch-out
the masses and forget anout the rest.

Grant.

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