Right, so if you don't know how the tech-support scam works, well it works like this: A scammer will call you claiming to be from Microsoft Tech support, and will inform you that your computer is infested with a malignant cancerous tumour and intestinal worms. They will put you through the theatrics of netstat, event viewer, msconfig, and whatever other techniques they may have to convince you that toy computer is indeed infested. They may tell you that browsing porn is not safe and that is probably how you got infested (abusing a common stigma that exists about adult websites, it's actually far more likely to get infested from malicious advertising or from a malicious email link). They will then ask you to install Team Viewer, or Ammyy, or some other remote-control software and then get you to connect to their computer. Once they do that they will use syskey to encrypt your hard drive and set a password that will lock you out of your computer, and ransom access to it back to you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du6acZ-PZQ8
This guy gets the Indian scammer to syskey his own computer, and then goes a step further by having him change the BIOS password as well. The scammer's computer is now completely unusable. He has performed a public service by preventing the Indian from scamming people, at least until he clears the BIOS password and reinstalls Windows (so for the rest of the day anyway).
What I find troubling are the comments in the Youtube video saying "this is the guy's livelihood" and "it is not OK to get him fired from his job" - um, WHAT? Since when do employees in a criminal enterprise have any legitimate rights to job security? Do people actually think this way??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du6acZ-PZQ8
This guy gets the Indian scammer to syskey his own computer, and then goes a step further by having him change the BIOS password as well. The scammer's computer is now completely unusable. He has performed a public service by preventing the Indian from scamming people, at least until he clears the BIOS password and reinstalls Windows (so for the rest of the day anyway).
What I find troubling are the comments in the Youtube video saying "this is the guy's livelihood" and "it is not OK to get him fired from his job" - um, WHAT? Since when do employees in a criminal enterprise have any legitimate rights to job security? Do people actually think this way??
For Religion & Health see:[/b][/size] Williams & Sternthal. (2007). Spirituality, religion and health: Evidence and research directions. Med. J. Aust., 186(10), S47-S50. -LINK
The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke
The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke
