On Sat, 13 Jul 2013 21:24:13 -0400, "Humbled Survivor"
wrote:

Here are some of my networking escapades:

http://importantfrivolities.zohosites.com/

When broadband goes out the network rolls over into dial-up. That's
curious. 4 computers sharing a single dial-up connection. But that's how
the story goes and it's what I have. (broadband and dial-up backup)

My buddy got a call from Microsoft saying if he didn't pay them $700 they
were going to disable his computer.

I thought the people who made such calls just got numbers out of the
phone book, and had no knowledge of what computers the person they
called owned.

My brother got a call claiming to be from Microsoft. I told him to
ignore the call, he did, and nothing happened to his computer.

So I got his hacked computer. A day

Are you sure the person on the phone damaged it?

The guy who called my brother had him look at something on the screen,
and tell him what it said. The guy on the phone said that proved his
computer needed repair and he would tell him how to do it. I figure
he must have taken him to the control panel or msinfo32, to some
internal data that the vast majority of computer owners never look at,
and my brother had the proper value but he just told him it was bad.


and a half later I got it back to 120%. Of course the caller wasn't
Microsoft. It was an imposter and I'd like to do some fragmenting of my own
with him. Naturally after I got it fixed Microsoft called him again, but I
had an antivirus on his computer and it blocked his attack. If they trash
him again I have all the disks to reinstall everything, which I should do in
about half the time.

I don't think Microsoft would do a thing like that, but I wouldn't put it
past them. But not really.