On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 4:42 PM, Stefan Jafs <[email protected]> wrote: > Just got off the phone from a not so computer savvy friend of mine. He had a > call from “Microsoft” from WV a technician with a very tick Indian accent, > apparently my friends computer was infected and kept sending out spam to a > server but the technician assured him that he would fix it, just connect > with TeamViewer and he’ll fix it. My friend said to me it must be real > because he had called 3 times and even left a phone number! Luckily he got a > bit suspicious and called my on his cell, I told him to immediately > disconnect the TeamViewer session. I don’t think the technician had enough > time to do anything malicious before he was disconnected. I asked my friend > to do a system restore from a few days ago. > > How can people be so gullible?
It's human nature - almost everyone wants to believe that others, even anonymous others, are good and helpful. Experience is the only remedy for this - get fooled often enough (at high enough cost!), and suspicion and skepticism will.start to show, for those who have a modicum of intelligence. > Anything else to look out for? New friends? :) If not that, then tools with which to train your current friends, perhaps. Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
