Watch out: A dangerous Windows 10 scam is being circulated online

CountMike · 29 Nov 2015

Atomic77 said:

Ok to put this in brief and simple terms we can all understand. The World is no longer safe. The Internet is no longer safe. Don't trust what you see or hear on the internet. Yes there are scams out there and there are people out there that can harm you and your computer. Be extra vilagent as you go online and also out into the real world.

Dig out history books, it never was. It wasn't all that safe for dinosaurs either.

jimbo45 · 29 Nov 2015

Hi there

All these scams show that no AV program will protect you against this sort of stuff -- If you want to install AV software on top of or instead of Ms's excellent Windows defender - by all means do so --but your emphasis should be on USING THE NET SAFELY and understanding the pitfalls. Problems with Viruses and Trojans aren't nearly as problematical these days as are these sorts of scams and things like browser hi-jacks and PUPS.

cheers
jimbo

CountMike · 29 Nov 2015

Best thing is to ask yourself who would you let in your house, who would you go out for a drink with, who you would give your credentials, credit card info, which dark neighborhoods you'd walk and things like that. Transmute all those things to internet and and behave accordingly.

FrozenCursor · 29 Nov 2015

CalBear37 said:

Its even easier than all that at least with Thunderbird which allows other "identities" to show in a sent email.

This easy to use Thunderbird feature is like giving people a printer for printing counterfeit money

Ought to be made illegal just like such printers are.

KACI · 29 Nov 2015

I was looking at the Hoax Buster web site last night and I'm amazed at the "stuff'" people fall for. Crooks are looking for greedy, lazy or stupid people, and apparently quite a few fit the target. Some people just don't get the fact that if it sounds too good to be true, it is to good to be true and just because it's on the net it doesn't make it true.

Atomic1977 · 29 Nov 2015

I know I posted it somewhere else on the forum but I once had a fixmypc virus on my pc a few days ago. My Norton 360 detected it and stopped it and removed it.

gtspeck · 29 Nov 2015

Too bad people stoop to this level to use these type of tactics to exploit people.

phrab · 15 Jun 2020

Any time you get an email purporting to "give" you something, it's best to copy the link into Notepad. You can then tell that it won't go to the site it claims (usually with a long string of letters & numbers) or that it's legit. Don't know why everyone doesn't do that before "clicking".

True, some "legitimate" links take you to an ad server, but you can usually get around that.

Trust_No1 · 16 Jun 2020

Unfortunately, scammers have seen how desperate Windows users are for the update

Really? desperate? people are desperate for Windows 10? wash out my mouth with soap
sounds like it could be more of a MS ploy

CountMike · 16 Jun 2020

Trust_No1 said:

Really? desperate? people are desperate for Windows 10? wash out my mouth with soap
sounds like it could be more of a MS ploy

Lol, some were in 2015 when that article originated from.