This thread is partly born from a new experience of mine, described lightly later, a fraud, now investigated by Police by four countries, plus Interpol.
But it's mainly inspired by numerous inserts by mainly young people in various sites, who for some reason suspect their own sanity. The...
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From Third-Party Giveaway site, for example
http://www.giveawayoftheday.com
From software official site or social media, for example,
https://plus.google.com/109991992304823387411/posts/QAp5itZ1cbV
Is this trust-able way to get paid software for free?
I hope this is the correct place to post, I trust it somewhat is. But I'm started to get pssssed, sorry 'bout the expression, but do we have some sort of attack going on?
1. I've used Google Chrome for a couple of years - now it suddenly breaks down once in a while!
2. I've used DVBViewer with...
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1) I posted an inquiry to this forum about 2 hours ago and note that my thread is the only one that nobody has responded to, so my first question as a new user is, "How long should I wait before exploring other options to try to solve a problem?" I expected that a forum moderator would have at...
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A day ago I had the BSOD, but my Win7 64-bit cptr was set to wait a few seconds and then start automatically, so I didn't get to see any error msgs and it booted into a temp profile, which I didn't realize and I thought I had lost all system reset points and almost everything else. I overlooked...
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Anyone else getting e-mails from what looks like ADP.com concerning financial matters. One comment was even an account would be debited for some amount.
I do not do business with ADP, and as far as I know no one I deal with does. The link provided to check the account seemed to be in Turkey....
My wife keeps getting these e-mails.
I have never seen anything with the strange symbols in the titles.
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I've run scans, no malware, anyone have any idea what's causing this?
They are always together in a group like this and though they have different senders I'm guessing they are...
I recently published a video on YouTube about false computerized phone calls and identity theft. Interestingly enough, Corrine over at SecurityGarden reports that Microsoft removed one of their Gold Certified Partners over a very similar issue: telephone scams.
This is true...
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A recent look at computer security shows online identity theft scams becoming easy for nefarious individuals who prey on those who lack essential security updates. Anyone experienced in the business need only to look at the serious manner of many, many businesses still running Windows XP without...
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An online security firm says hackers are putting renewed efforts into breaching web email accounts
One is based on phishing, the other on the MHTML procol.
Read Full Story: New Email Scams Stealthier Than Ever: Report / Infopackets.com
From many searches and many videos,i found fake antiviruses infecting PC:mad:,Beware of:Antivirus 360,System security,Windows police,Windows XP police.And many more,they block every page at internet,they say clean files as viruses.Don't download any weird thing that you don't know...
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Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) claimed credit on Thursday for taking down one of the biggest producers of spam e-mail in a joint effort with federal authorities across the United States.
The world's biggest software company said its legal action against the operator of the Rustock 'botnet' -- or...
Before i begin explaining this weird situation, please understand that it's true and i seen it with my own eyes !
Today i was about to purchase a laptop from an individual i met ! I was told the laptop had a 4gb Ram, 250 gb HDD, 2.0 core two duo processor and running windows vista ! But...
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I received a call today from a representative of this website:
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They claimed my pc had been sending them error messages and that my 'Microsoft warrenty' (whatever that is) was out of date. I played along until I got the above details and then revealed I was a MVP...
Microsoft has mounted a legal offensive against scams targeting its pay-per-click advertising services, filing two lawsuits that take aim at what it says is a sophisticated new form of the crime.
In two complaints filed this week, Microsoft accused web publishers of engaging in a practice it...