con artists.In hindsight it may have been a good thing my pride did the talking.
I got a cold call this morning from a company that dealt with Viruses. The call came from another country (more than likely - the line was extremely bad). They give me this long story about how they have been getting complaints from other people in my country about viruses being downloaded off the net. The lady then asks me, are you near your computer - I'm working, so I say yea, is it powered on? (rolled my eyes at that one, I said yea again. "Can you find your start button for me please?" I click on my start button and she asks me what I see my computer, or computer. I ask her why I need to do this, she says to identify the viruses. I tell her that I am an A+ qualified PC tech and that my PC has no viruses whatsoever. Which she seems to ignore.
She then asks me to right click on computer and click on manage. which I do. But at the same time I'm distracted by a text message, and she thinks my PC's not running fast enough and she says "you call yourself a PC technician and your computer's slow?"
To which I then replied that I don't need to participate in this, and put the phone down in her ear.
So, armed with a few choice keywords, I go consult the Big G, and this is the first post I found. They try to get you to install software on your computer that gives them access to it. They ask you to pay for the software and it becomes sort of PC blackmail. If you don't keep paying them, they lock you out of your own computer and you cannot use it.
Now, going to go make some coffee and try some breathing exercises to calm down.
