**Copyright violation alert**

Tefal said:
So stupidity then...
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In this instance naivety and stupidity may have the same outcome but you can't label everyone stupid. There are many people out there with a complete lack of knowledge of how malicious some internet users can be.

Now sweeping generalisations can indeed be construed as "stupid" because they often demonstrate a foolish ignorance of the subject in point. See where I am going with this? ;)
 
I had to convince someone yesterday that she didnt actually have a dead uncle she'd never heard of in Ghana, that he hasn't actually left her several million pounds and that scanning in and sending her passport, drivers licence, electric bill and a copy of her bank account details to some unknown chap in Africa would be a really stupid idea. I just refused to do it for her.

Some people are complete tards.

She actually said to me, "If its not real, then how does he know about my dead uncle?". She didnt even know about this "dead uncle" until his first email.

I hope she goes elsewhewre and gets scammed, that'll teach her a lesson.
 
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-BA- said:
In this instance naivety and stupidity may have the same outcome but you can't label everyone stupid. There are many people out there with a complete lack of knowledge of how malicious some internet users can be.

Now sweeping generalisations can indeed be construed as "stupid" because they often demonstrate a foolish ignorance of the subject in point. See where I am going with this? ;)
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No,

the average userbase is now trained/conditioned to click 'Yes' to any and all alerts that their PC shows up.
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Clicking yes to any and every alert that pops up without reading it is stupidity.
 
Clearly some people in this thread have no experience or understanding of working with the more vulnerable groups of society who, guess what, may actually own a computer and be wide open to scams like this. Let me guess you guys are telephone tech support? Have you got big bouffant affros too like Moss from The IT Crowd?
 
-BA- said:
Clearly some people in this thread have no experience or understanding of working with the more vulnerable groups of society who, guess what, may actually own a computer and be wide open to scams like this. Let me guess you guys are telephone tech support? Have you got big bouffant affros too like Moss from The IT Crowd?
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soundb0y with a "i7 D0, evga x58 mobo, asus 4890s xfire" system and a bc2 sig doesn't strike me as particularly vulnerable ;)

If you're going to do illegal/dubious things at least learn about them first because it's much harder to get legitimate help.
 
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Le_Petit_Lapin said:
I had to convince someone yesterday that she didnt actually have a dead uncle she'd never heard of in Ghana, that he hasn't actually left her several million pounds and that scanning in and sending her passport, drivers licence, electric bill and a copy of her bank account details to some unknown chap in Africa would be a really stupid idea. I just refused to do it for her.

Some people are complete tards.

She actually said to me, "If its not real, then how does he know about my dead uncle?". She didnt even know about this "dead uncle" until his first email.

I hope she goes elsewhewre and gets scammed, that'll teach her a lesson.
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Good grief.
 
Le_Petit_Lapin said:
I had to convince someone yesterday that she didnt actually have a dead uncle she'd never heard of in Ghana, that he hasn't actually left her several million pounds and that scanning in and sending her passport, drivers licence, electric bill and a copy of her bank account details to some unknown chap in Africa would be a really stupid idea. I just refused to do it for her.

Some people are complete tards.

She actually said to me, "If its not real, then how does he know about my dead uncle?". She didnt even know about this "dead uncle" until his first email.

I hope she goes elsewhewre and gets scammed, that'll teach her a lesson.
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Sounds like she NEEDS to get scammed.
 
Had the first customer contact me about this one. Not surprised they got it though as they had IE6 and Norton 2002 which expired in 2007.
 
Tefal said:
soundb0y with a "i7 D0, evga x58 mobo, asus 4890s xfire" system and a bc2 sig doesn't strike me as particularly vulnerable ;)

If you're going to do illegal/dubious things at least learn about them first because it's much harder to get legitimate help.
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:D Thank you. I would class myself as having excellent computer skills/knowledge, just sometimes I get lazy and havnt had a problem in such a long time I let my guard down, such as accidentaly leaving the av off.

Anyway its not as though I was foolish enough to send them any money, I just ran a few programs and within 20 minutes everything was back to the way it was.
 
While I was playing EFLC Sunday night, the game randomly minimised and something called "AR Manager" started installing itself. "Weird" was my first impression, as nothing ill seemed to happen aferwards. But the following morning when I turned my PC on, a shortcut to this "AR Manager" was on my desktop. Foolishly, I ran the application and my wallpaper changed to this copyright violation alert jazz. I then changed my wallpaper back to what it was and uninstalled the program (or whatever it was) via the Control Panel. Obviously it didn't lock my PC down like the article the OP posted claims it does.

Anyway, I went the whole day without anything bizarre happening. Great. I restarted my PC this morning and the "AR Manager" installer popped up again, along with the desktop shortcut. The thing I find most bizarre is that Norton (2010) didn't detect anything. I looked in the History and Quarantine sections, and not only was it detected, it was also blocked. :confused:

If Norton can't get rid of it, I might have to let it lock me out and see if that code works... Unless anyone knows how I could remove it permanently without running it again? (I'm not that clued up when it comes to viruses and their removal because I just assume my software will do it for me).
 
Tefal said:
Clicking yes to any and every alert that pops up without reading it is stupidity.
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Actually i did read the dialogue box smart arse! :mad:



It told me a could have hidden malware and virus and asked if i wanted them fixed, so i clicked yes. :D



:p
 
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