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Symantec Disavows Business Partner Caught Running a Tech Support Scam (malwarebytes.org)
An anonymous reader writes: Malwarebytes has caught one of Symantec's resellers running a tech support scam that was scaring users into thinking they were infected with malware and then graciously offering to sell Symantec's security software at inflated rates. Malwarebytes played along with their scam and found out the company behind it was Silurian Tech Support, located somewhere in North India. Symantec told El Reg that it terminated the reseller's contract and will work with law enforcement to defend its brand and intellectual property.
The nearly two dozen I've worked with leads me to believe no.
Bank-to-bank transactions and internal Symantec documents with the president and all of the board agreeing to use Silurian Tech Support as a leverage to drive "money" to Symantec.
It was a "done deal" right from the get go.
Ha ha
PS [bling bling] US IRS is a calling Master, what shall I say?
...makes me rather more hesitant to use Symantec. Kind of like the security company that offered their services to a few dozen companies (mine included) without bothering to bcc: the email addresses.
They better check for tunnels underground, too. And maybe a blue police box.
After the Google HTTPS issue and now this, better to stay away from Symantec.
Oh, and as an Indian, not all of us are bad, but most do try to peddle stuff that's not needed. I work as a sysadmin for a small company, and my AMC vendors are always trying to sell unwanted stuff, plus stuff which is heavily marked up.
Just go in the kitchen sink.
People will agree to go back to the bathrooms pretty quickly.
Aren't they the reptilian` lizard people?
Need to cut off connections with them, forever.
Selling people symantec to get rid of malware? Sounds like using grape juice to get a spaghetti stain out.
Remember the good old days, when AV makers could just slip money under the table to the virus makers?
It's not only India, as we are finding out Germany is the same. I am not talking just about VW, big scandals for example with weapon manufacturer kickback and corruption or even Siemens running all sorts of illegal dealings in Greece and then Germany refusing to extradite the people responsible etc...
OP: When you write "(surprised?)" about a region in a negative way then that makes you generalising about a whole people based on thier location and thats rascist.
Let's all say a prayer and offer our faith-based donations to the church of anti-virus.
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Be passive-agressive. Piss all over the floor and the toilet. Let the woman ask for separate rooms. Personally, the worst ever idea, specially in planes was to have unisex toilets, I do not fancy being in a long line in the morning because some inconsiderate bitch is doing her personal toiletry there. Anyone who has a sister knows how women can monopolize the bathroom instead of using a simple mirror somewhere else.
It isn't the western worlds fault that India has earned such a reputation.
It is true that a number of Indian technology companies/workers misrepresent what they are capable of. If it is true, it is not racism to point it out.
A number is a gross understatement . I would say the majority of them. http://www.dose.com/theworld/2...
A Dell customer service rep phoned me, told me the model numbers on both my computers, described issues from my support history seven months earlier -- and then tried the exact same "infected with malware" scam.
http://www.10zenmonkeys.com/20...
I think the only thing that will change this may be more news coverage of how common this is -- to the point where companies like Dell and Symantec have to reassure their customers that this will no longer be happening when you purchase their products.
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By "yours truly" - "The Lord of Hosts" so-to-speak:
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It's safe proven by 57 antivirus programs recently in BOTH its 64-bit model https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
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Its 32-bit model too https://www.virustotal.com/en/...
Its installer too -> http://f.virscan.org/APKHostsF...
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* "The premise is quite simple: Take something designed by nature & reprogram it to make it work for the body rather than against it..." - Dr. Alice Krippen: "I am legend"
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See subject, my last post too, & this: "Halt Maul - Absenden schweinen si schachten!"
I'll let him, another great military commander speak for me too vs. scum like you (albeit in German) as I did Will Smith's character in my other reply to you!
TRANSLATION = "STFU, send me MORE pigs" (like YOU) "to kill!"
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P.S.=> Between Mr. Pitt's character Sgt. Don Collier & Will Smith's as Dr./Col. Robert Neville in "I.M. Legend" (lol, "yours truly" online for DECADES now, doing things that help others vs. being a reprehensible PEST like you)?
It makes this truth vs. trolling SWINE like you:
By "yours truly" - "The Lord of Hosts" so-to-speak:
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