Wife got phone call this moning fom Virgin media and the indian caller
in a busy call centre told her her computer was runing slow and she
could speed things up...wife didn't have her laptop on and couldn't find
her glasses so she hollered out the window to me in the font garden to
come in and speak to the wummin'....so I came in and spoke to her....she
asked me if I had my computer on and what was the key to the right of
CTRL....I told her FN and she said to push the windows key to the right
of that......at that point I twigged it was a scam and hung up....she
phoned back imediately and I hung up again....I assumed it was a scam
but the scarry thing was The wife would have fell for it....what info
were they after after they took over the computer ?

In article ,
Jimmy Stewart wrote:
Wife got phone call this moning fom Virgin media and the indian caller
in a busy call centre told her her computer was runing slow and she
could speed things up...wife didn't have her laptop on and couldn't find
her glasses so she hollered out the window to me in the font garden to
come in and speak to the wummin'....so I came in and spoke to her....she
asked me if I had my computer on and what was the key to the right of
CTRL....I told her FN and she said to push the windows key to the right
of that......at that point I twigged it was a scam and hung up....she
phoned back imediately and I hung up again....I assumed it was a scam
but the scarry thing was The wife would have fell for it....what info
were they after after they took over the computer ?

I had one of these calls a few months ago. When I said the key had a
cogwheel on it, there was a long pause. Then "Is it a Windows computer?",
to which I replied "No" and they hung up.

--
from KT24 in Surrey, England
"I'd rather die of exhaustion than die of boredom" Thomas Carlyle

On 03/03/2021 13:04, charles wrote:
In article ,
Jimmy Stewart wrote:
Wife got phone call this moning fom Virgin media and the indian caller
in a busy call centre told her her computer was runing slow and she
could speed things up...wife didn't have her laptop on and couldn't find
her glasses so she hollered out the window to me in the font garden to
come in and speak to the wummin'....so I came in and spoke to her....she
asked me if I had my computer on and what was the key to the right of
CTRL....I told her FN and she said to push the windows key to the right
of that......at that point I twigged it was a scam and hung up....she
phoned back imediately and I hung up again....I assumed it was a scam
but the scarry thing was The wife would have fell for it....what info
were they after after they took over the computer ?

I had one of these calls a few months ago. When I said the key had a
cogwheel on it, there was a long pause. Then "Is it a Windows computer?",
to which I replied "No" and they hung up.

I did that some time ago..got them all excited wasted half an hour of
their time before they twigged i was running Linux.

Unfortunately it also wasted half an hour of my time too.

--
€œIt is hard to imagine a more stupid decision or more dangerous way of
making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people
who pay no price for being wrong.€�

Thomas Sowell

In article , The Natural Philosopher
wrote:
On 03/03/2021 13:04, charles wrote:
In article , Jimmy Stewart
wrote:
Wife got phone call this moning fom Virgin media and the indian caller
in a busy call centre told her her computer was runing slow and she
could speed things up...wife didn't have her laptop on and couldn't
find her glasses so she hollered out the window to me in the font
garden to come in and speak to the wummin'....so I came in and spoke
to her....she asked me if I had my computer on and what was the key to
the right of CTRL....I told her FN and she said to push the windows
key to the right of that......at that point I twigged it was a scam
and hung up....she phoned back imediately and I hung up again....I
assumed it was a scam but the scarry thing was The wife would have
fell for it....what info were they after after they took over the
computer ?

I had one of these calls a few months ago. When I said the key had a
cogwheel on it, there was a long pause. Then "Is it a Windows
computer?", to which I replied "No" and they hung up.

I did that some time ago..got them all excited wasted half an hour of
their time before they twigged i was running Linux.

I was running RISC OS, as i am now.

Unfortunately it also wasted half an hour of my time too.

+!

--
from KT24 in Surrey, England
"I'd rather die of exhaustion than die of boredom" Thomas Carlyle

On 03/03/2021 14:47, charles wrote:
In article , The Natural Philosopher
wrote:
On 03/03/2021 13:04, charles wrote:
In article , Jimmy Stewart
wrote:
Wife got phone call this moning fom Virgin media and the indian caller
in a busy call centre told her her computer was runing slow and she
could speed things up...wife didn't have her laptop on and couldn't
find her glasses so she hollered out the window to me in the font
garden to come in and speak to the wummin'....so I came in and spoke
to her....she asked me if I had my computer on and what was the key to
the right of CTRL....I told her FN and she said to push the windows
key to the right of that......at that point I twigged it was a scam
and hung up....she phoned back imediately and I hung up again....I
assumed it was a scam but the scarry thing was The wife would have
fell for it....what info were they after after they took over the
computer ?

I had one of these calls a few months ago. When I said the key had a
cogwheel on it, there was a long pause. Then "Is it a Windows
computer?", to which I replied "No" and they hung up.

I did that some time ago..got them all excited wasted half an hour of
their time before they twigged i was running Linux.

I was running RISC OS, as i am now.


Well full marks for rarity, I don't think everything I need is on
RISCOS, sadly...



Unfortunately it also wasted half an hour of my time too.

+!



--
€œPeople believe certain stories because everyone important tells them,
and people tell those stories because everyone important believes them.
Indeed, when a conventional wisdom is at its fullest strength, ones
agreement with that conventional wisdom becomes almost a litmus test of
ones suitability to be taken seriously.€�

Paul Krugman

In article , The Natural Philosopher
wrote:
On 03/03/2021 14:47, charles wrote:
In article , The Natural Philosopher
wrote:
On 03/03/2021 13:04, charles wrote:
In article , Jimmy Stewart
wrote:
Wife got phone call this moning fom Virgin media and the indian
caller in a busy call centre told her her computer was runing slow
and she could speed things up...wife didn't have her laptop on and
couldn't find her glasses so she hollered out the window to me in
the font garden to come in and speak to the wummin'....so I came in
and spoke to her....she asked me if I had my computer on and what
was the key to the right of CTRL....I told her FN and she said to
push the windows key to the right of that......at that point I
twigged it was a scam and hung up....she phoned back imediately and
I hung up again....I assumed it was a scam but the scarry thing was
The wife would have fell for it....what info were they after after
they took over the computer ?

I had one of these calls a few months ago. When I said the key had a
cogwheel on it, there was a long pause. Then "Is it a Windows
computer?", to which I replied "No" and they hung up.

I did that some time ago..got them all excited wasted half an hour of
their time before they twigged i was running Linux.

I was running RISC OS, as i am now.


Well full marks for rarity, I don't think everything I need is on
RISCOS, sadly...


Agreed; I also have a Windows10 Desktop. 2 Windows 10 laptops which can run
Virtual Acorn, a RISC OS laptop (used for society accounts) and an iPad Pro
on which I keep 'sheet' music.

All my DTP work is done on RISC OS. Laptops were originally for taking
proofs to 'customers' and, if necesssary, amending on the spot.


Unfortunately it also wasted half an hour of my time too.

+!


--
from KT24 in Surrey, England
"I'd rather die of exhaustion than die of boredom" Thomas Carlyle

On 03/03/2021 13:54, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Wed, 03 Mar 2021 13:52:30 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 03/03/2021 13:04, charles wrote:
In article ,
Jimmy Stewart wrote:
Wife got phone call this moning fom Virgin media and the indian caller
in a busy call centre told her her computer was runing slow and she
could speed things up...wife didn't have her laptop on and couldn't
find her glasses so she hollered out the window to me in the font
garden to come in and speak to the wummin'....so I came in and spoke
to her....she asked me if I had my computer on and what was the key to
the right of CTRL....I told her FN and she said to push the windows
key to the right of that......at that point I twigged it was a scam
and hung up....she phoned back imediately and I hung up again....I
assumed it was a scam but the scarry thing was The wife would have
fell for it....what info were they after after they took over the
computer ?

I had one of these calls a few months ago. When I said the key had a
cogwheel on it, there was a long pause. Then "Is it a Windows
computer?",
to which I replied "No" and they hung up.

I did that some time ago..got them all excited wasted half an hour of
their time before they twigged i was running Linux.

Unfortunately it also wasted half an hour of my time too.

Think of it as your good deed for the day - one less vulnerable person
scammed in that time.


I have a stupid neighbour and I am always finding he has been scammed,
gets paranoid, changes all his passwords and then cant get any emåil or
wifi. That because he insists on being on BT.

When ever I get a phone call from 'BT ' 'about my internet' i tell them
I am not on BT so **** off


--
"I am inclined to tell the truth and dislike people who lie consistently.
This makes me unfit for the company of people of a Left persuasion, and
all women"

On Wed, 03 Mar 2021 14:22:01 +0000, Jethro_uk wrote:

On Wed, 03 Mar 2021 14:06:37 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 03/03/2021 13:54, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Wed, 03 Mar 2021 13:52:30 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 03/03/2021 13:04, charles wrote:
In article ,
Jimmy Stewart wrote:
Wife got phone call this moning fom Virgin media and the indian
caller in a busy call centre told her her computer was runing slow
and she could speed things up...wife didn't have her laptop on and
couldn't find her glasses so she hollered out the window to me in
the font garden to come in and speak to the wummin'....so I came in
and spoke to her....she asked me if I had my computer on and what
was the key to the right of CTRL....I told her FN and she said to
push the windows key to the right of that......at that point I
twigged it was a scam and hung up....she phoned back imediately and
I hung up again....I assumed it was a scam but the scarry thing was
The wife would have fell for it....what info were they after after
they took over the computer ?

I had one of these calls a few months ago. When I said the key had a
cogwheel on it, there was a long pause. Then "Is it a Windows
computer?",
to which I replied "No" and they hung up.

I did that some time ago..got them all excited wasted half an hour of
their time before they twigged i was running Linux.

Unfortunately it also wasted half an hour of my time too.

Think of it as your good deed for the day - one less vulnerable person
scammed in that time.


I have a stupid neighbour and I am always finding he has been scammed,
gets paranoid, changes all his passwords and then cant get any emåil or
wifi. That because he insists on being on BT.

When ever I get a phone call from 'BT ' 'about my internet' i tell them
I am not on BT so **** off

Not having a landline solves so many problems.

I need one for my modem.

"jon" wrote in message ...
On Wed, 03 Mar 2021 14:22:01 +0000, Jethro_uk wrote:

On Wed, 03 Mar 2021 14:06:37 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 03/03/2021 13:54, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Wed, 03 Mar 2021 13:52:30 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 03/03/2021 13:04, charles wrote:
In article ,
Jimmy Stewart wrote:
Wife got phone call this moning fom Virgin media and the indian
caller in a busy call centre told her her computer was runing slow
and she could speed things up...wife didn't have her laptop on and
couldn't find her glasses so she hollered out the window to me in
the font garden to come in and speak to the wummin'....so I came in
and spoke to her....she asked me if I had my computer on and what
was the key to the right of CTRL....I told her FN and she said to
push the windows key to the right of that......at that point I
twigged it was a scam and hung up....she phoned back imediately and
I hung up again....I assumed it was a scam but the scarry thing was
The wife would have fell for it....what info were they after after
they took over the computer ?

I had one of these calls a few months ago. When I said the key had a
cogwheel on it, there was a long pause. Then "Is it a Windows
computer?",
to which I replied "No" and they hung up.

I did that some time ago..got them all excited wasted half an hour of
their time before they twigged i was running Linux.

Unfortunately it also wasted half an hour of my time too.

Think of it as your good deed for the day - one less vulnerable person
scammed in that time.


I have a stupid neighbour and I am always finding he has been scammed,
gets paranoid, changes all his passwords and then cant get any emåil or
wifi. That because he insists on being on BT.

When ever I get a phone call from 'BT ' 'about my internet' i tell them
I am not on BT so **** off

Not having a landline solves so many problems.

I need one for my modem.

But you dont have to have a phone plugged into it or even a phone service
over it.

"Jethro_uk" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 03 Mar 2021 14:06:37 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 03/03/2021 13:54, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Wed, 03 Mar 2021 13:52:30 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

On 03/03/2021 13:04, charles wrote:
In article ,
Jimmy Stewart wrote:
Wife got phone call this moning fom Virgin media and the indian
caller in a busy call centre told her her computer was runing slow
and she could speed things up...wife didn't have her laptop on and
couldn't find her glasses so she hollered out the window to me in
the font garden to come in and speak to the wummin'....so I came in
and spoke to her....she asked me if I had my computer on and what
was the key to the right of CTRL....I told her FN and she said to
push the windows key to the right of that......at that point I
twigged it was a scam and hung up....she phoned back imediately and
I hung up again....I assumed it was a scam but the scarry thing was
The wife would have fell for it....what info were they after after
they took over the computer ?

I had one of these calls a few months ago. When I said the key had a
cogwheel on it, there was a long pause. Then "Is it a Windows
computer?",
to which I replied "No" and they hung up.

I did that some time ago..got them all excited wasted half an hour of
their time before they twigged i was running Linux.

Unfortunately it also wasted half an hour of my time too.

Think of it as your good deed for the day - one less vulnerable person
scammed in that time.


I have a stupid neighbour and I am always finding he has been scammed,
gets paranoid, changes all his passwords and then cant get any emåil or
wifi. That because he insists on being on BT.

When ever I get a phone call from 'BT ' 'about my internet' i tell them
I am not on BT so **** off

Not having a landline solves so many problems.

Wouldnt work for him, he cant work out how to answer an incoming call on a
mobile.

"Jimmy Stewart" wrote in message
...
Wife got phone call this moning fom Virgin media and the indian caller in
a busy call centre told her her computer was runing slow and she could
speed things up...wife didn't have her laptop on and couldn't find her
glasses so she hollered out the window to me in the font garden to come in
and speak to the wummin'....so I came in and spoke to her....she asked me
if I had my computer on and what was the key to the right of CTRL....I
told her FN and she said to push the windows key to the right of
that......at that point I twigged it was a scam and hung up....she phoned
back imediately and I hung up again....I assumed it was a scam but the
scarry thing was The wife would have fell for it....what info were they
after after they took over the computer ?

what sort of intelligent person believes random caller that says "your
computer is running slowly"

How are they supposed to know this?

do they have a camera installed in your house watching you, or something?

On 03/03/2021 15:45, tim... wrote:
what sort of intelligent person believes random caller that says "your
computer is running slowly"

(i) mostly unintelligent people
(ii) or supposedly intelligent people who haven't a clue how *anything*
works *at all* (C.f. 'Art Students').

How are they supposed to know this?

do they have a camera installed in your house watching you, or something?

Don't need that. traffic analysis can give you a clue actually.



--
The theory of Communism may be summed up in one sentence: Abolish all
private property.

Karl Marx

"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
...
On 03/03/2021 15:45, tim... wrote:
what sort of intelligent person believes random caller that says "your
computer is running slowly"

(i) mostly unintelligent people
(ii) or supposedly intelligent people who haven't a clue how *anything*
works *at all* (C.f. 'Art Students').

How are they supposed to know this?

do they have a camera installed in your house watching you, or something?

Don't need that. traffic analysis can give you a clue actually.

but that's a fault within their network

not with my computer

"tim..." wrote in message
...


"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
...
On 03/03/2021 15:45, tim... wrote:
what sort of intelligent person believes random caller that says "your
computer is running slowly"

(i) mostly unintelligent people
(ii) or supposedly intelligent people who haven't a clue how *anything*
works *at all* (C.f. 'Art Students').

How are they supposed to know this?

do they have a camera installed in your house watching you, or
something?

Don't need that. traffic analysis can give you a clue actually.

but that's a fault within their network

Nope, it can often be with your computer.

not with my computer

Wrong, as always.

On 03/03/2021 16:34, tim... wrote:


"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
...
On 03/03/2021 15:45, tim... wrote:
what sort of intelligent person believes random caller that says
"your computer is running slowly"

(i) mostly unintelligent people
(ii) or supposedly intelligent people who haven't a clue how
*anything* works *at all* (C.f. 'Art Students').

How are they supposed to know this?

do they have a camera installed in your house watching you, or
something?

Don't need that. traffic analysis can give you a clue actually.

but that's a fault within their network

No.
If you car is travelling slow as evinced by e.g. a GPS signal phoning
home, it might be the car or it might be the traffic. You can't tell.
But if all the other cars are travelling faster, its a good hint the
reason is in YOUR car

not with my computer





--
Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early
twenty-first centurys developed world went into hysterical panic over a
globally average temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and,
on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer
projections combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to
contemplate a rollback of the industrial age.

Richard Lindzen

"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
...
On 03/03/2021 16:34, tim... wrote:


"The Natural Philosopher" wrote in message
...
On 03/03/2021 15:45, tim... wrote:
what sort of intelligent person believes random caller that says "your
computer is running slowly"

(i) mostly unintelligent people
(ii) or supposedly intelligent people who haven't a clue how *anything*
works *at all* (C.f. 'Art Students').

How are they supposed to know this?

do they have a camera installed in your house watching you, or
something?

Don't need that. traffic analysis can give you a clue actually.

but that's a fault within their network

No.
If you car is travelling slow as evinced by e.g. a GPS signal phoning
home, it might be the car or it might be the traffic.

or it could be that I am just driving slower

In article , tim...
wrote:


"Jimmy Stewart" wrote in message
...
Wife got phone call this moning fom Virgin media and the indian caller
in a busy call centre told her her computer was runing slow and she
could speed things up...wife didn't have her laptop on and couldn't
find her glasses so she hollered out the window to me in the font
garden to come in and speak to the wummin'....so I came in and spoke
to her....she asked me if I had my computer on and what was the key to
the right of CTRL....I told her FN and she said to push the windows
key to the right of that......at that point I twigged it was a scam
and hung up....she phoned back imediately and I hung up again....I
assumed it was a scam but the scarry thing was The wife would have
fell for it....what info were they after after they took over the
computer ?

what sort of intelligent person believes random caller that says "your
computer is running slowly"

How are they supposed to know this?

your router has reported this, of course

do they have a camera installed in your house watching you, or something?

--
from KT24 in Surrey, England
"I'd rather die of exhaustion than die of boredom" Thomas Carlyle

On 03/03/2021 15:45, tim... wrote:


"Jimmy Stewart" wrote in message
...
Wife got phone call this moning fom Virgin media and the indian caller
in a busy call centre told her her computer was runing slow and she
could speed things up...wife didn't have her laptop on and couldn't
find her glasses so she hollered out the window to me in the font
garden to come in and speak to the wummin'....so I came in and spoke
to her....she asked me if I had my computer on and what was the key to
the right of CTRL....I told her FN and she said to push the windows
key to the right of that......at that point I twigged it was a scam
and hung up....she phoned back imediately and I hung up again....I
assumed it was a scam but the scarry thing was The wife would have
fell for it....what info were they after after they took over the
computer ?

what sort of intelligent person believes random caller that says "your
computer is running slowly"

There are a lot of unintelligent people and intelligent ones that know
little about computers.

How are they supposed to know this?

do they have a camera installed in your house watching you, or something?

Lots of people know that Windows reports all sorts of things back to
Microsoft and when they get a call from "Microsoft Support" they think
it's real.

On 03/03/2021 15:45, tim... wrote:


"Jimmy Stewart" wrote in message
...
Wife got phone call this moning fom Virgin media and the indian caller
in a busy call centre told her her computer was runing slow and she
could speed things up...wife didn't have her laptop on and couldn't
find her glasses so she hollered out the window to me in the font
garden to come in and speak to the wummin'....so I came in and spoke
to her....she asked me if I had my computer on and what was the key to
the right of CTRL....I told her FN and she said to push the windows
key to the right of that......at that point I twigged it was a scam
and hung up....she phoned back imediately and I hung up again....I
assumed it was a scam but the scarry thing was The wife would have
fell for it....what info were they after after they took over the
computer ?

what sort of intelligent person believes random caller that says "your
computer is running slowly"

How are they supposed to know this?

do they have a camera installed in your house watching you, or something?



problem is fecking Virgin media is slow even when a speed test says
otherwise.....

Jimmy Stewart ... wrote:
On 03/03/2021 15:45, tim... wrote:


"Jimmy Stewart" wrote in message
...
Wife got phone call this moning fom Virgin media and the indian caller
in a busy call centre told her her computer was runing slow and she
could speed things up...wife didn't have her laptop on and couldn't
find her glasses so she hollered out the window to me in the font
garden to come in and speak to the wummin'....so I came in and spoke
to her....she asked me if I had my computer on and what was the key to
the right of CTRL....I told her FN and she said to push the windows
key to the right of that......at that point I twigged it was a scam
and hung up....she phoned back imediately and I hung up again....I
assumed it was a scam but the scarry thing was The wife would have
fell for it....what info were they after after they took over the
computer ?

what sort of intelligent person believes random caller that says "your
computer is running slowly"

How are they supposed to know this?

do they have a camera installed in your house watching you, or something?



problem is fecking Virgin media is slow even when a speed test says
otherwise.....


Ours is fine. Virgin does slow down when they are monitoring your
connection for the police.

On 03/03/2021 20:49, Radio Man wrote:
Jimmy Stewart ... wrote:
On 03/03/2021 15:45, tim... wrote:


"Jimmy Stewart" wrote in message
...
Wife got phone call this moning fom Virgin media and the indian caller
in a busy call centre told her her computer was runing slow and she
could speed things up...wife didn't have her laptop on and couldn't
find her glasses so she hollered out the window to me in the font
garden to come in and speak to the wummin'....so I came in and spoke
to her....she asked me if I had my computer on and what was the key to
the right of CTRL....I told her FN and she said to push the windows
key to the right of that......at that point I twigged it was a scam
and hung up....she phoned back imediately and I hung up again....I
assumed it was a scam but the scarry thing was The wife would have
fell for it....what info were they after after they took over the
computer ?

what sort of intelligent person believes random caller that says "your
computer is running slowly"

How are they supposed to know this?

do they have a camera installed in your house watching you, or something?



problem is fecking Virgin media is slow even when a speed test says
otherwise.....


Ours is fine. Virgin does slow down when they are monitoring your
connection for the police.

nice one brian...tee hee

"tim..." wrote in message
...


"Jimmy Stewart" wrote in message
...
Wife got phone call this moning fom Virgin media and the indian caller in
a busy call centre told her her computer was runing slow and she could
speed things up...wife didn't have her laptop on and couldn't find her
glasses so she hollered out the window to me in the font garden to come
in and speak to the wummin'....so I came in and spoke to her....she asked
me if I had my computer on and what was the key to the right of CTRL....I
told her FN and she said to push the windows key to the right of
that......at that point I twigged it was a scam and hung up....she phoned
back imediately and I hung up again....I assumed it was a scam but the
scarry thing was The wife would have fell for it....what info were they
after after they took over the computer ?

what sort of intelligent person believes random caller that says "your
computer is running slowly"

Someone who doesnt understand anything about
computers and that is by far the majority of people.

How are they supposed to know this?

It isnt hard for the service provider to see
that a remote computer is running slowly
and not surprising that a member of the
public assumes that is possible.

do they have a camera installed in your house watching you, or something?

They dont need that, just monitor the
traffic over the service being provided.

And most computers do in fact have
a camera looking at the user too.

On 03/03/2021 15:45, tim... wrote:

what sort of intelligent person believes random caller that says "your
computer is running slowly"

There are people around who aren't very intelligent. In fact some really
stupid people seem to survive to a ripe old age.

Bill

williamwright wrote
tim... wrote

what sort of intelligent person believes random caller that says "your
computer is running slowly"

There are people around who aren't very intelligent. In fact some really
stupid people seem to survive to a ripe old age.

And plenty more that know so little about technology that
they dont have a clue whether their service provider can
work out if their computer is running slow or not but are
aware that a service provider can ring you and tell you
that there is a problem with the service being provided.

On Thu, 4 Mar 2021 10:27:43 +1100, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:



There are people around who aren't very intelligent. In fact some really
stupid people seem to survive to a ripe old age.

And plenty more

Good to see that you felt personally addressed, you abysmally stupid senile
smartass!

In article , Rod Speed
wrote:
williamwright wrote
tim... wrote

what sort of intelligent person believes random caller that says "your
computer is running slowly"

There are people around who aren't very intelligent. In fact some
really stupid people seem to survive to a ripe old age.

And plenty more that know so little about technology that they don‘t have
a clue whether their service provider can work out if their computer is
running slow or not but are aware that a service provider can ring you
and tell you that there is a problem with the service being provided.

I know the proprietor of my ISP personally. I know he can interrogate my
router (which he provided). He also know my phone number, so he can ring me.

--
from KT24 in Surrey, England
"I'd rather die of exhaustion than die of boredom" Thomas Carlyle

williamwright wrote:
On 03/03/2021 15:45, tim... wrote:

what sort of intelligent person believes random caller that says "your
computer is running slowly"

There are people around who aren't very intelligent. In fact some really
stupid people seem to survive to a ripe old age.

No comment! :-)

--
Chris Green
·

Jimmy Stewart wrote

Wife got phone call this moning fom Virgin media and the indian caller in
a busy call centre told her her computer was runing slow and she could
speed things up...wife didn't have her laptop on and couldn't find her
glasses so she hollered out the window to me in the font garden

Didnt realise you baptised little kids in your garden. Funky...

to come in and speak to the wummin'....so I came in and spoke to her....
she asked me if I had my computer on and what was the key to the right of
CTRL....I told her FN and she said to push the windows key to the right of
that......at that point I twigged it was a scam and hung up....she phoned
back imediately and I hung up again....I assumed it was a scam but the
scarry thing was The wife would have fell for it....

Time to trade her in on a new bimbo.

what info were they after after they took over the computer ?

Whatever is on it thats useful to them like you banking details and
passwords etc.

On 03/03/2021 19:18, Rod Speed wrote:
Jimmy Stewart wrote

Wife got phone call this moning fom Virgin media and the indian caller
in a busy call centre told her her computer was runing slow and she
could speed things up...wife didn't have her laptop on and couldn't
find her glasses so she hollered out the window to me in the font garden

Didnt realise you baptised little kids in your garden. Funky...

to come in and speak to the wummin'....so I came in and spoke to her....
she asked me if I had my computer on and what was the key to the right
of CTRL....I told her FN and she said to push the windows key to the
right of that......at that point I twigged it was a scam and hung
up....she phoned back imediately and I hung up again....I assumed it
was a scam but the scarry thing was The wife would have fell for it....

Time to trade her in on a new bimbo.

what info were they after after they took over the computer ?

Whatever is on it thats useful to them like you banking details and
passwords etc.
but I have to put in my banking stuff manually...???

"Jimmy Stewart ..." wrote in message
...
On 03/03/2021 19:18, Rod Speed wrote:
Jimmy Stewart wrote

Wife got phone call this moning fom Virgin media and the indian caller
in a busy call centre told her her computer was runing slow and she
could speed things up...wife didn't have her laptop on and couldn't find
her glasses so she hollered out the window to me in the font garden

Didnt realise you baptised little kids in your garden. Funky...

to come in and speak to the wummin'....so I came in and spoke to her....
she asked me if I had my computer on and what was the key to the right
of CTRL....I told her FN and she said to push the windows key to the
right of that......at that point I twigged it was a scam and hung
up....she phoned back imediately and I hung up again....I assumed it was
a scam but the scarry thing was The wife would have fell for it....

Time to trade her in on a new bimbo.

what info were they after after they took over the computer ?

Whatever is on it thats useful to them like you banking details and
passwords etc.

but I have to put in my banking stuff manually...???

They arent to know that.

On Thu, 4 Mar 2021 06:18:31 +1100, cantankerous trolling geezer Rodent
Speed, the auto-contradicting senile sociopath, blabbered, again:

FLUSH the trolling senile scum's latest troll**** unread

You are getting pretty much ignored by everyone (except by me), eh, senile
lonely scum? LOL

--
Norman Wells addressing trolling senile Rodent:
"Ah, the voice of scum speaks."
MID:

Anything they could find failing that put a bomb in so some weeks on you
cannot access your machines data and are asked to send them bit coins to
unlock it.
Brian

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"Jimmy Stewart" wrote in message
...
Wife got phone call this moning fom Virgin media and the indian caller in
a busy call centre told her her computer was runing slow and she could
speed things up...wife didn't have her laptop on and couldn't find her
glasses so she hollered out the window to me in the font garden to come in
and speak to the wummin'....so I came in and spoke to her....she asked me
if I had my computer on and what was the key to the right of CTRL....I
told her FN and she said to push the windows key to the right of
that......at that point I twigged it was a scam and hung up....she phoned
back imediately and I hung up again....I assumed it was a scam but the
scarry thing was The wife would have fell for it....what info were they
after after they took over the computer ?

On 03/03/2021 11:31, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Wed, 03 Mar 2021 11:26:44 +0000, Jimmy Stewart wrote:

Wife got phone call this moning fom Virgin media and the indian caller
in a busy call centre told her her computer was runing slow and she
could speed things up...wife didn't have her laptop on and couldn't find
her glasses so she hollered out the window to me in the font garden to
come in and speak to the wummin'....so I came in and spoke to her....she
asked me if I had my computer on and what was the key to the right of
CTRL....I told her FN and she said to push the windows key to the right
of that......at that point I twigged it was a scam and hung up....she
phoned back imediately and I hung up again....I assumed it was a scam
but the scarry thing was The wife would have fell for it....what info
were they after after they took over the computer ?

Who knows ? But they probably make a cent or two for every infected
computer they can deliver to the bot networks.

Crypto mining was in vogue a while back.

is pushing the windows key one of the steps to give them control of your
computer ? ...

On 03/03/2021 11:40, Jimmy Stewart wrote:
On 03/03/2021 11:31, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Wed, 03 Mar 2021 11:26:44 +0000, Jimmy Stewart wrote:

Wife got phone call this moning fom Virgin media and the indian caller
in a busy call centre told her her computer was runing slow and she
could speed things up...wife didn't have her laptop on and couldn't find
her glasses so she hollered out the window to me in the font garden to
come in and speak to the wummin'....so I came in and spoke to her....she
asked me if I had my computer on and what was the key to the right of
CTRL....I told her FN and she said to push the windows key to the right
of that......at that point I twigged it was a scam and hung up....she
phoned back imediately and I hung up again....I assumed it was a scam
but the scarry thing was The wife would have fell for it....what info
were they after after they took over the computer ?

Who knows ? But they probably make a cent or two for every infected
computer they can deliver to the bot networks.

Crypto mining was in vogue a while back.

is pushing the windows key one of the steps to give them control of your
computer ? ...


Thanks goodness you didn't push it. If you had pressed the windows key
and R at the same time, they could have taken over your soul. Mind you,
most changes would be an improvement.

On Wed, 03 Mar 2021 12:00:48 +0000, GB wrote:

On 03/03/2021 11:40, Jimmy Stewart wrote:
On 03/03/2021 11:31, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Wed, 03 Mar 2021 11:26:44 +0000, Jimmy Stewart wrote:

Wife got phone call this moning fom Virgin media and the indian
caller in a busy call centre told her her computer was runing slow
and she could speed things up...wife didn't have her laptop on and
couldn't find her glasses so she hollered out the window to me in the
font garden to come in and speak to the wummin'....so I came in and
spoke to her....she asked me if I had my computer on and what was the
key to the right of CTRL....I told her FN and she said to push the
windows key to the right of that......at that point I twigged it was
a scam and hung up....she phoned back imediately and I hung up
again....I assumed it was a scam but the scarry thing was The wife
would have fell for it....what info were they after after they took
over the computer ?

Who knows ? But they probably make a cent or two for every infected
computer they can deliver to the bot networks.

Crypto mining was in vogue a while back.

is pushing the windows key one of the steps to give them control of
your computer ? ...


Thanks goodness you didn't push it. If you had pressed the windows key
and R at the same time, they could have taken over your soul. Mind you,
most changes would be an improvement.

oh, that is so unfair the way you treat jimbo

On 03/03/2021 12:40, jon wrote:
On Wed, 03 Mar 2021 12:00:48 +0000, GB wrote:

On 03/03/2021 11:40, Jimmy Stewart wrote:
On 03/03/2021 11:31, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Wed, 03 Mar 2021 11:26:44 +0000, Jimmy Stewart wrote:

Wife got phone call this moning fom Virgin media and the indian
caller in a busy call centre told her her computer was runing slow
and she could speed things up...wife didn't have her laptop on and
couldn't find her glasses so she hollered out the window to me in the
font garden to come in and speak to the wummin'....so I came in and
spoke to her....she asked me if I had my computer on and what was the
key to the right of CTRL....I told her FN and she said to push the
windows key to the right of that......at that point I twigged it was
a scam and hung up....she phoned back imediately and I hung up
again....I assumed it was a scam but the scarry thing was The wife
would have fell for it....what info were they after after they took
over the computer ?

Who knows ? But they probably make a cent or two for every infected
computer they can deliver to the bot networks.

Crypto mining was in vogue a while back.

is pushing the windows key one of the steps to give them control of
your computer ? ...


Thanks goodness you didn't push it. If you had pressed the windows key
and R at the same time, they could have taken over your soul. Mind you,
most changes would be an improvement.

oh, that is so unfair the way you treat jimbo

totly

In message , jon writes
On Wed, 03 Mar 2021 12:00:48 +0000, GB wrote:

On 03/03/2021 11:40, Jimmy Stewart wrote:
On 03/03/2021 11:31, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Wed, 03 Mar 2021 11:26:44 +0000, Jimmy Stewart wrote:

Wife got phone call this moning fom Virgin media and the indian
caller in a busy call centre told her her computer was runing slow
and she could speed things up...wife didn't have her laptop on and
couldn't find her glasses so she hollered out the window to me in the
font garden to come in and speak to the wummin'....so I came in and
spoke to her....she asked me if I had my computer on and what was the
key to the right of CTRL....I told her FN and she said to push the
windows key to the right of that......at that point I twigged it was
a scam and hung up....she phoned back imediately and I hung up
again....I assumed it was a scam but the scarry thing was The wife
would have fell for it....what info were they after after they took
over the computer ?

Who knows ? But they probably make a cent or two for every infected
computer they can deliver to the bot networks.

Crypto mining was in vogue a while back.

is pushing the windows key one of the steps to give them control of
your computer ? ...


Thanks goodness you didn't push it. If you had pressed the windows key
and R at the same time, they could have taken over your soul. Mind you,
most changes would be an improvement.

oh, that is so unfair the way you treat jimbo

He has no soul to take over.
--
Ian

On 03-03-2021 12:40, jon wrote:
On Wed, 03 Mar 2021 12:00:48 +0000, GB wrote:

On 03/03/2021 11:40, Jimmy Stewart wrote:
On 03/03/2021 11:31, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Wed, 03 Mar 2021 11:26:44 +0000, Jimmy Stewart wrote:

Wife got phone call this moning fom Virgin media and the indian
caller in a busy call centre told her her computer was runing slow
and she could speed things up...wife didn't have her laptop on and
couldn't find her glasses so she hollered out the window to me in the
font garden to come in and speak to the wummin'....so I came in and
spoke to her....she asked me if I had my computer on and what was the
key to the right of CTRL....I told her FN and she said to push the
windows key to the right of that......at that point I twigged it was
a scam and hung up....she phoned back imediately and I hung up
again....I assumed it was a scam but the scarry thing was The wife
would have fell for it....what info were they after after they took
over the computer ?

Who knows ? But they probably make a cent or two for every infected
computer they can deliver to the bot networks.

Crypto mining was in vogue a while back.

is pushing the windows key one of the steps to give them control of
your computer ? ...


Thanks goodness you didn't push it. If you had pressed the windows key
and R at the same time, they could have taken over your soul. Mind you,
most changes would be an improvement.

oh, that is so unfair the way you treat jimbo


The man is ignorant.

On 03/03/2021 21:38, Radio Man wrote:
On 03-03-2021 12:40, jon wrote:
On Wed, 03 Mar 2021 12:00:48 +0000, GB wrote:

On 03/03/2021 11:40, Jimmy Stewart wrote:
On 03/03/2021 11:31, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Wed, 03 Mar 2021 11:26:44 +0000, Jimmy Stewart wrote:

Wife got phone call this moning fom Virgin media and the indian
caller in a busy call centre told her her computer was runing slow
and she could speed things up...wife didn't have her laptop on and
couldn't find her glasses so she hollered out the window to me in the
font garden to come in and speak to the wummin'....so I came in and
spoke to her....she asked me if I had my computer on and what was the
key to the right of CTRL....I told her FN and she said to push the
windows key to the right of that......at that point I twigged it was
a scam and hung up....she phoned back imediately and I hung up
again....I assumed it was a scam but the scarry thing was The wife
would have fell for it....what info were they after after they took
over the computer ?

Who knows ? But they probably make a cent or two for every infected
computer they can deliver to the bot networks.

Crypto mining was in vogue a while back.

is pushing the windows key one of the steps to give them control of
your computer ? ...


Thanks goodness you didn't push it. If you had pressed the windows key
and R at the same time, they could have taken over your soul. Mind you,
most changes would be an improvement.

oh, that is so unfairÂ*Â*Â* the way you treat jimbo


The man is ignorant.
The man doesn't care what you think brian ...

On 03/03/2021 12:00, GB wrote:
On 03/03/2021 11:40, Jimmy Stewart wrote:
On 03/03/2021 11:31, Jethro_uk wrote:
On Wed, 03 Mar 2021 11:26:44 +0000, Jimmy Stewart wrote:

Wife got phone call this moning fom Virgin media and the indian caller
in a busy call centre told her her computer was runing slow and she
could speed things up...wife didn't have her laptop on and couldn't
find
her glasses so she hollered out the window to me in the font garden to
come in and speak to the wummin'....so I came in and spoke to
her....she
asked me if I had my computer on and what was the key to the right of
CTRL....I told her FN and she said to push the windows key to the right
of that......at that point I twigged it was a scam and hung up....she
phoned back imediately and I hung up again....I assumed it was a scam
but the scarry thing was The wife would have fell for it....what info
were they after after they took over the computer ?

Who knows ? But they probably make a cent or two for every infected
computer they can deliver to the bot networks.

Crypto mining was in vogue a while back.

is pushing the windows key one of the steps to give them control of
your computer ? ...


Thanks goodness you didn't push it. If you had pressed the windows key
and R at the same time, they could have taken over your soul. Mind you,
most changes would be an improvement.
come to think of it she did say push both....
http://www.zeigen.com/shortcuts/2007/08/03/run/