Received call from someone who said they were from Windows and that my pc is infected number 888-887-3134
I need to know if this is a legitimate call as he asked me to pull the event viewer and it did show warnings and errors, he asked me to delete but they would not delete and then we was asking me to type a url to ping, in the run box, the pc, that's
where I stopped and asked for a return call number so that I could verify the authenticity of the call.
Its
a scam. A well known and long running one. Microsoft will never ask for personal details (they already have them) and will never cold call you or send out anti virus messages.
Microsoft
does not do that nor do they have partners who do that
See
the following for additional information about this and what to do and how Microsoft operates:
http://www.microsoft.com/security/online-privacy/msname.aspx
answers.microsoft.com/en-us/protect/wiki/protect_other-protect_scanning/is-that-call-from-microsoft-a-scam/6718e389-8a00-4e4b-aca1-d07298ea4c19?rtAction=1405643984573
Wanikiya and Dyami--Team Zigzag
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Activation Lock in iOS 7 > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5818
hannibalfromlemery wrote:
.I cant activate my Iphone 5. I bought this from someone
The Apple ID and Password that was Originally used to Activate the iDevice is required.
If you cannot get this information from the seller
Removing a device from a previous owner’s account
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hi, this thread already deals with the issue:
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Phone call saying they were from Microsoft Windows
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[email protected]Hi, I also had a phone call from someone who claimed they were from the microsoft team and were having warnings suggesting that my computer had serious issues. When I asked which computer they said the one with windows 7. After a long phone call
and they even went onto my computer remotely without asking for my permission showed me severial files which they classed as hackers trying to get into my information which can be corrected at a cost of £89. When I told them I was not interested as the
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Today I got a call from someone with a strong Indian accent claiming they were from microsoft and that my computer was in critical condition. I can't recall microsoft ever calling people personally about this so it automatically seemed like a scam. I told
him I didn't believe it fairly quickly and hung up. So I wanted to know in case there really is something wrong, do microsoft people ever call customers to tell them of errors? Is this just a scam and in which case is there a way for me to report these people?Its a scam. A well known and long running one. Microsoft will never ask for personal details (they already have them) and
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Microsoft does not do that nor do they have partners who do that
See the following for additional information about this and what to do and how Microsoft operates:
http://www.microsoft.com/security/online-privacy/msname.aspx
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I spoke to someone at adobe who said they would cancel my two memberships as it was a misunderstanding and now i receive a mail saying money has been taken out my account. They reactivated my account without me doing it myself and then saying thank you for reactivating. FUMING!!!
Here are the 3 orders placed by you under the same Adobe ID.
Creative Cloud Photography plan (one-year)
Desktop Subscription
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Creative Cloud single-app membership for In Design (one-year)
Desktop Subscription
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Desktop Subscription
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You can use all of them but they can be activated twice only for e.g. if you install the photography plan on two computer as soon as you try to activate the illustrator CC , it will ask you to deactivate.
You should contact Adobe Support & get two of the order cancelled, since it is duplicate subscription so the renewals charges will be refunded back. You need to buy them under different Adobe ID to use them.
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Rajshree -
hi everyone,
since 2 weeks: i received for 3 times a mail from Apple who said: "you're password was reseted..." but i didn't asked for reset. So i have to re-change my password again. How can i be sure my account is not hacked ?
Best regards.I'll add my problem to this list as it sounds similar. First a little background. This is a problem I think we will see from a lot of long term users, so here is my story. When .Mac was first made available I signed up and was given a new apple ID [email protected] At this point I already had an Apple ID that I was using for just music purposes (apps didnt't exist yet) but was told by apple I would have to give it up. They could not merge IDs and would not change them. The end result was getting a new Apple ID and having to redownload all my purchased music over P2P or burn it and re-rip to remove the DRM. Fast forward a bit to a time when Gmail is getting bigger. I'm invited to try it out and I decide that I'm going to stop paying $100 for email, as I never really used he other features iDisk, photo sharing etc, and syncing contacts, calendars and mail was just as easy through gmail. Now years later we have iCloud. I have to sign in with my outdated .mac ID, at this point I have for too many apps/music/shows to drop that ID. When I sign in with that .mac Apple ID I get the automated iCloud message telling me my new email address is [email protected] However when I go to send email from my iCloud account it is using .mac as the sending address and the mail will not go through. I can't change it in the mail app or in settings. I'm kind of at a loss as to where to go next. I'm stuck with a defunct email address as a username that is more or less a key to thousands of dollars worth of content, and a new email address that won't function and nobody at Apple can press the right buttons to help clean it up. Some kind of system should be in place to change a user ID. Maybe once a year or once every other year. **** at this point I would even pay a one time fee just for my user name to be rid of that old .mac extension.
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You don't necessarily need separate AppleIDs, but you need to set the Send and Receive for Messages to different addresses (Settings App > Messages).
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Are you sure that iPhoto is the app for you?
iPhoto is designed to help you organise your Photos, but you seemed focussed on organising files.
The idea is simple: organise them as you want in the iPhoto Window. As I said above, as you never access the files on the HD then how iPhoto stores them is of no relevance. (It's by date of import BTW).
Where are you seeing these changed dates? In the iPhoto Window ? Somewhere else?
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Has it been 24 hours?
I take it this was a gift card. iTunes Store: Invalid, Inactive, or Illegible codes http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1292 - gift cards
I don't know if this provides an alternative means: https://expresslane.apple.com ; select 'iTunes' in the first column; 'iTunes Store' in the second column
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What are the iTunes library files? - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1660
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What are all those iTunes files? - http://www.macworld.com/article/139974/2009/04/itunes_files.html
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Did you see this FAQ article?
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