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On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 19:20:36 +0100 Paul Sutton wrote: > On 19/07/10 18:58, kevin wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 18:28 +0100, Simon Robert wrote: > >> On 14/07/10 16:33, kevin wrote: > >>> On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 16:12 +0100, Rob Beard wrote: > >>>> On 14/07/10 15:06, kevin wrote: > >>>>> Has any one had dealings with Team View 5? > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> <Snip> from a Windows user > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> Do you know anything about an outfit called TEAM VIEW? Every > >>>>> time my machine crashes I am invited to tick a few boxes on a > >>>>> pop-up. Sometimes I tick the boxes, sometimes I don't. I > >>>>> thought that responses went to MicroSoft who sat on them. We > >>>>> receive telephone calls quite often, I am sure that they are > >>>>> from India, offering to put things right. i now think that > >>>>> these calls come a day or two after I have click the report > >>>>> button. This afternoon I asked them a few questions. They are > >>>>> called Team View 5 and they seemed to be leading me towards > >>>>> getting software from them.When I was asked to click on RUN on > >>>>> a download box I felt it unsafe to proceed further and backed > >>>>> out. Are they genuine or are they selling anti virus software? > >>>>> How do they get these reports?<snip/> > >>>>> > >>>>> The machine crashes often and they have just extorted Â50 from > >>>>> this user and was remotely vnc'd and was asked for the Admin > >>>>> password The user got scared and refused. > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> The obviously have installed a vnc client on the machine, and > >>>>> are looking for Â50 to remove some ".inf" files > >>>>> > >>>>> My advice was load Linux and tell them to pi$$ off > >>>>> > >>>>> any comments also appreciated. > >>>>> > >>>> Sounds like they have been subject to some sort of scam. I've > >>>> heard of things like "XP Anti-Virus" which was a popup which > >>>> came up on a site saying that the user had a virus and was > >>>> advised to install "XP Anti-Virus", and then the user is conned > >>>> out of money to remove it. > > is that the site that comes up with a nice java explorer window > scanning c: etc for viruses, even on Linux, > > that looks really funny on Linux, a decent programmer woudl at least > write code to detect the os and display a window that looks like what > the user is looking at in terms of user interface. Why bother going to the extra effort to fool a few extra people who are more than likely not going to be fooled anyway? Write it to catch-out the masses and forget anout the rest. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq