People made some great airplanes with these.
Posted on 10/24/2013 8:22:36 PM PDT by waynesa98
So I get a private call, dead air for a few seconds, then the phone rings back to the caller. Indian accented man answers claiming my computer is infected with a virus, no company name nothing. So I ask which computer. a few meaningless back and forth. Ask me to google teamviewer.com, instead of just going to teamviewer.com. wanted access to my system, wouldn't tell me the virus. did an off line scan anyway. So note to selfs, do not let anyone your not 100% sure is legit connect to your system with teamviewer
You still have a Wang?
Though making a Freidan divide by zer0 is good sport too.
People made some great airplanes with these.
i know what they are and know what they do ima wondering how much job security there is for the IT guy cause it seems like hes been fixing lotsa more here lately and my 2 immediate overs are the smartest 2 men in the world and they are gonna fight till their is only one because there can be only one
I had the same thing a couple of months ago. Some man with a strong Asian accent said he was from Microsoft and that they had detected that my computer had a virus that they needed to fix. He said I should go to a website and give him permission to access my computer in order to fix it.
I tried to draw him into a conversation by asking questions but he didn't seem to understand much English so I just hung up.
That happened to me once too. Sounded like India
They play the percentages - even if only 1% of calls let them in and they gain access to their banking details then it’s free money time!
Mel
When the clerk at the cash register asks for an email address I always say: "I'm not allowed to access a computer while I'm on probation."
That tends to discourage follow up questions.
I got into a swearing match with a caller from Africa and he kept shouting “I’m your father”. It was probably something vile in his native language but I started laughing at him and it made him even madder. I told him to call back when he had learned better profanity.
“One would be to say that you don’t own a computer.”
I have 2 friends that don’t have a computer and don’t even know how to turn one on, they get along just fine.
LOWBRIDGE RULES!
Yes, but it wasn't easy. Sikorsky had rooms full of people, using these 8 hours a day, to solve a single rotor blade aerodynamic equation.
That's alotta tubes....
dam, my first corporate job was building a PBS tracking system on a wang mini, using minicalc. Can I come over to relive my ill begotten past?
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