just had a `phone call from an Indian sounding chap, claiming to be from a "Computer management company", informing me that my computer was infected and transmitting errors over the internet! ;-)
He claimed that he was going to give me some simple instructions over the `phone to rectify my problems, and asked me to open control panel-->administrive controls --> event viewer, - and to tell him how many errors and warnings wee in each catergory. By now I was feeling suspicious, so i told him "none" to which he sounded suprised, then he wanted me to go into Component services and start turning on things that were disabled by default! - needless to say i told him politely to "go away!" and hung up on him.
firstly: these errors and warnings are only log entries of events and cant be transmitted over t`internet can they?
secondly: is it possible that my internet use is being monitored or hacked?
thirdly: is this some attempt at a scam or some such type of thing?
opinions please?!
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