- Dec 14, 2000
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The other night my wife was home alone. She got a call from someone claiming to be from Microsoft's licensing department that told her there are people using her computer to do illegal things.
Gave her instructions to go to command prompt, type something that brought up her windows license number and he told her what it was to the letter... not vice versa. He then gave her a command to see how many people were logged into her computer and using it to do harm.
THANKFULLY, some of my yapping over the years stuck with her and when he told her how she can get rid of it is run www.123whatevertherestoftheaddresswas.com she hung up - ran malwarebytes and whatever it is windows10 provides for virus (I'm still using dinosaur operating systems and know nothing about 10).
Just now, a guy with a thick Indian accent from a loud call center location calling, claiming to be from "Software License Security" and asked for her by name. She is 100% certain she never gave her name. So I'm wondering how her info was obtained AND what I can do to keep her system/info clean and safe.
Thanks in advance for any info/tips you can provide, I appreciate it!
Gave her instructions to go to command prompt, type something that brought up her windows license number and he told her what it was to the letter... not vice versa. He then gave her a command to see how many people were logged into her computer and using it to do harm.
THANKFULLY, some of my yapping over the years stuck with her and when he told her how she can get rid of it is run www.123whatevertherestoftheaddresswas.com she hung up - ran malwarebytes and whatever it is windows10 provides for virus (I'm still using dinosaur operating systems and know nothing about 10).
Just now, a guy with a thick Indian accent from a loud call center location calling, claiming to be from "Software License Security" and asked for her by name. She is 100% certain she never gave her name. So I'm wondering how her info was obtained AND what I can do to keep her system/info clean and safe.
Thanks in advance for any info/tips you can provide, I appreciate it!