[Info-vax] Maybe a bit OT, maybe not.. in any case an interesting article

[Paul Sture]

On Mon, 14 May 2012 11:35:27 -0700, John Wallace wrote:

> I don't know where Nomen Nescio is, but in this part of the world there
> are already Linux-centric folk willing to be paid to get phone calls at
> 2am in the morning, in sectors varying from SME to corporate. Customers
> of these folk probably get better answers than the vast majority of MS
> customers ever get from a support call.

Yes, I know a couple of these folks.

> Also, it'll be a long time
> before Linux users are vulnerable to scamsters like Nerd Support, one of
> whose reps spamcalled me the other day and who was puzzled when I asked
> him where the Start menu he wanted me to click on "to clear the errors
> he'd seen on my computer" could be found on an Ubuntu computer (I don't
> use Ubuntu but wondered if he might at least have heard of it and
> realise his MS-dependent scam was doomed to failure).

A non computer savvy friend suffered an attack by similar scamsters.  
They even had the cheek to get angry with him when he refused to pay and 
hung up telling him that they had bricked his machine and he'd need to 
buy another.

Windows 7, admin account, no password, no router.

A simple restore from the original DVD got him going again.  This time 
with a password and a router on order.

-- 
Paul Sture