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Phone call saying services are stopped on your computer? It’s a scam.

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 10 May 2017 01:33:29 +0000

“Hello? My name is Max and I’m calling from CSA. We got a report saying that services are stopped on your computer.” I hung up, for lack of energy to fight with “Max,” or even to troll him by telling

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I read Microsoft’s site to a “Microsoft” scammer

Dave Farquhar — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 11:00:40 +0000

“Daniel” from “Microsoft” called me the other day. The number looked halfway legit so I picked up. He out and out claimed to be from Microsoft and said he was getting alerts from my computer. His voice sounded familiar–I think

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Netstat scam and netstat scammers

Dave Farquhar — Mon, 01 Sep 2014 11:00:48 +0000

A longtime friend’s aunt almost got taken by a fake tech support scammer. He told me about it, and in the process, this was also the first I’d heard of the netstat scam, or netstat scammers. She saved herself by

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Identifying what processes are talking on your Windows box

Dave Farquhar — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 22:22:32 +0000

If you're curious whether a particular piece of software might be spyware, or you have some other reason to believe your computer might have been compromised and might be talking to something it shouldn't be, there's a quick and easy way to find out besides using the standard netstat -an command.

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