Hi Keith
There’s no way for any company, or website, to know anything about the state of
your Mac unless you download software to report back to them. The best thing to
do is to play as dumb as possible and waste as much of their time as you can, I
find it most relaxing.
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Sam
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On 18 Jan 2014, at 12:44, Keith Scott <[email protected]> wrote:
> Can anyone tell me whether or not the repeated calls I get from "Microsoft
> Windows" telling me they are getting signals from my computer that I have
> downloaded a malicious file?
>
> Thay attempt to get me to key in a 6 digit number which they claim is a
> temporary way of allowing them to inspect my Mac from Safari site
> "www.Support.me".
>
> This displays a warning, which I heeded and went no further.
> I do not remember ever initially having been given a 6 digit number by Apple,
> which they claim.
>
> I had been tempted to follow their advice this time as I am fed up with
> repeated calls from these Indian guys, whose speech is barely intelligible.
>
>
> I will be very pleased if anyone can give me some idea of whether or not this
> is a scam.
> The only problems I have recently had repetedly on my PowerMac running OSX
> 10.4.11 + Classic OS 9 are with Facebook which repeatedly hangs on incoming
> emails when my email has to be "Force Quitted" and the incoming email binned.
>
>
> Keith
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