Phone scammer: 60% Of People Believe Us

Scammers people through pop-ups let you know that their computer is infected with a virus and they should call a certain telephone number are very successful, claims a Phone Scammer on Reddit , who says he has six months dealing with the phone defrauding people.

When asked how many people have with the scam, the scammer that 40% of people from all kinds of insults, while the remaining 60% actually think they are infected by malware. To solve the problem at least $ 100 was charged, while a virus the same amount had to be paid. Asking prices were, however, depending on the location and the profession that exerted the victim. Something the scammers ask victims.

Initially, the scammer claims that he did not realize that people were ripped off, though he had his suspicions. Eventually, he realized what he was doing and decided to stop. The scammer claims to be an American and says that there are many call centers in the US where the scams are carried out. In his case, which were mainly aimed at Windows users. Called example, a Mac user, then he decided to hang up.

The pop-ups that let users believe they have shown both Windows and Mac users problems, says security firm Blue Coat.Contrary to Blue Coat maintains its Mac users have long targeted by scammers. For example, in 2013 and 2014 all variants of this scam observed that focused on Mac users.

Virustotal: "Easily Detect Malware With Free Microsoft Sysinternal Tool Process Explorer"

Microsoft has been offering the free program Process Explorer, but recently it cooperates with VirusTotal Google, allowing users to easily check their computer for malware. Process Explorer shows an overview of services, programs, and files that are running on the computer. Through the integration with VirusTotal hashes may be checked at VirusTotal.

VirusTotal is an online virus scanner that scans files by 57 virus scanners. By the online virus scan service via Process Explorer to call can be clearly or suspicious files on your computer are active. Microsoft security architect Roger Grimes late InfoWorld know how suspicious files then disable via Process Explorer. Then he removes the computer the file in question manually.

Grimes warns Windows users that deleting files is at your own risk. It can namely that a virus file wrongly regarded as malware or that the file in question is a driver or other important program component. Some malware can not be closed by Process Explorer. For this, use Grimes Autoruns , another free program from Microsoft, which prevents the infected file the next time Windows starts loading.

The security architect stressed that this detection is not perfect. Some malware to evade detection, although that is special, says Grimes. "In the future, do virus writers struggled to avoid Process Explorer and Autoruns, but this is currently not the case. This method is therefore one of the best protection methods that you can use."