On 08/03/2015 12:35 PM, steve harley wrote:
On 2015-03-07 14:10 , mike wilson wrote:
But I thought this sort of
thing didn't happen to the Apple corps?
there are a lot more malware attempts on Macs these days — the halcyon
days are over — but pop-ups (and phone calls) trying to alarm you about
a security problem are not a platform-specific security flaw; they are
just a strangely effective way of manipulating people
I have a lot of fun with them if I happen to have nothing on the go when
they call. The best one I managed was to keep the guy on the phone while
I played the panicky old person game on them. Eventually I was led to a
website to download a "repair tool" (and no, I didn't go there, I just
randomly tapped keys so he would hear me doing something). After much
looking for the download link, I asked him where the one for Mac was.
The guys at the Mac store told me to never download something unless it
said it would work with a Mac.
After a while he gave up on me.
Sometimes I just go all racist on them. That's pretty satisfactory,
though they hang up before I can really get going.
The last time, I just told the guy I knew he was a scammer, that I
wasn't going to fall for it and he might as well put me on their no call
list. Interestingly, I've had no phone calls for several weeks.
bill
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