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Listen To a Microsoft Support Scam As It Happened

Posted by samzenpus on from the can-I-trust-you? dept.

itwbennett writes You know full well that Microsoft will never call you and ask to "access your computer" to help fix a problem. Yet this is a ruse that many unsuspecting computer users fall for and wind up with their machine hacked. CSO writer Steve Ragan, turns the tables during a phone call with a scammer — and he records it all for us to hear. Do yourself a favor and play it for your parents.

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  1. NoScript by DrunkenTerror · · Score: 5, Informative

    There are ninety (90) scripts trying to run on that page.

    1. Re:NoScript by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      This always seems to come as a complete surprise to many people, but you can just link directly to an audio or video file. You don't actually need any javascript "playback controls". My OS will take care of that just fine, thank you, and play the file when I click on the link to it. That's what it's for. And it's far more trustworthy than some random site's pile of javascript doing who knows what.

      So yes, zero script is the preferred answer. Like the GP, I disable them locally, so only sites I wish to allow to run scripts can run scripts.