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CylonToast · 2012-11-28 06:57:39

I've never really gotten a virus on my computer but some Indian guy on the phone wanted to "help me fix my computer problems on my Windows computer" when I wasn't even on a Windows computer, I was on a Mac, and they don't get viruses, so the joke's on him. I told him I had a Mac and that my windows were clean and they didn't need to be washed and then he ragequit. xD

dvd4 · 2012-11-28 07:38:14

CylonToast wrote:
I've never really gotten a virus on my computer but some Indian guy on the phone wanted to "help me fix my computer problems on my Windows computer" when I wasn't even on a Windows computer, I was on a Mac, and they don't get viruses, so the joke's on him. I told him I had a Mac and that my windows were clean and they didn't need to be washed and then he ragequit. xD

My dad once received a phone call like that from someone that said his name was peter. my dad acted like someone that had windows and didn't know a thing about computers, and recorded the whole thing. But the indian guy quit when my dad asked for his last name.

epicepicman · 2012-11-28 08:22:00

I had this virus where this fake security program kept popping up and saying I had over 100 viruses and told me to upgrade to the full version for an easy payment of $1000.

dvd4 · 2012-11-28 08:31:37

Easy payment of $ 1000.

XD

Spyderblade · 2012-11-28 11:13:10

Yeah, I got another computer because my other one crashed and I lost everything; luckily there's not a lot of important stuff a 7-year-old can put on a PC. Why did it crash? A mystery to this day. I was playing LotR game for Windows, and then it went from normal, to blue, to black. It never woke up again.

DigiTechs · 2012-11-28 11:43:42

epicepicman wrote:
I had this virus where this fake security program kept popping up and saying I had over 100 viruses and told me to upgrade to the full version for an easy payment of $1000.

I had to fix a virus like that.

Security Shield, I think it was.

zubblewu · 2012-11-28 16:17:49

My friend had a fake antivirus like that to, called platinum security live or something. I deleted it for him, but it installed a few worse ones, like seekportals.com

haxcharsol · 2012-11-28 18:05:45

Spyderblade wrote:
Yeah, I got another computer because my other one crashed and I lost everything; luckily there's not a lot of important stuff a 7-year-old can put on a PC. Why did it crash? A mystery to this day. I was playing LotR game for Windows, and then it went from normal, to blue, to black. It never woke up again.

Something like that happened to me.
I was playing a game, and POP. The computer shut off and never turned on again.
Although, I think that was more of a battery malfunction.

Spyderblade · 2012-11-30 08:20:58

BUMP BUMP BUMP *computer crashes*

Spyderblade · 2012-12-03 09:23:44

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epicepicman · 2012-12-03 16:28:52

DigiTechs wrote:
epicepicman wrote:
I had this virus where this fake security program kept popping up and saying I had over 100 viruses and told me to upgrade to the full version for an easy payment of $1000.
I had to fix a virus like that.

Security Shield, I think it was.

Mine was PC Security Guardian.

ImagineIt · 2012-12-03 16:38:59

CylonToast wrote:
I've never really gotten a virus on my computer but some Indian guy on the phone wanted to "help me fix my computer problems on my Windows computer" when I wasn't even on a Windows computer, I was on a Mac, and they don't get viruses, so the joke's on him. I told him I had a Mac and that my windows were clean and they didn't need to be washed and then he ragequit. xD

jji7skyline said he got that once on Misc. I think...

muppetds · 2012-12-03 16:42:00

ImagineIt wrote:
CylonToast wrote:
I've never really gotten a virus on my computer but some Indian guy on the phone wanted to "help me fix my computer problems on my Windows computer" when I wasn't even on a Windows computer, I was on a Mac, and they don't get viruses, so the joke's on him. I told him I had a Mac and that my windows were clean and they didn't need to be washed and then he ragequit. xD
jji7skyline said he got that once on Misc. I think...

I think so as well..

[flashback]
ah the good old days of misc
[end flashback]

Martiscratch · 2012-12-07 14:09:50

DigiTechs wrote:
scratchisthebest wrote:
Ooh, I have the best AV software around!
It's called Ubuntu.

...

*sound of crickets*

(well, I guess rm -rf / would be a bit of a problem...)
I know an even better AV!

A computer that's not connected to the Internet.

Android is the best AV around.

Alternatives · 2012-12-07 14:51:13

i've had this computer for a few years, updating it and stuff. I've never gotten a virus. my anti-virus puts things it suspects are virus into "quarantine" which makes it impossible to run, but if you feel it isn't a virus you can just dequarintine(word?) it.

DJKarnage · 2012-12-07 15:30:05

I remember on day i was making a project (diffrent account) and from no apparent reason — was totally out of the blue — my computer crashed and was making this really really REALLY loud high pitched squeal. Why did it happen? I have no idea. I finally resorted to flipping the main power cord to all the electronics and viola its working fine.

jji7skyline · 2012-12-07 19:03:41

ImagineIt wrote:
CylonToast wrote:
I've never really gotten a virus on my computer but some Indian guy on the phone wanted to "help me fix my computer problems on my Windows computer" when I wasn't even on a Windows computer, I was on a Mac, and they don't get viruses, so the joke's on him. I told him I had a Mac and that my windows were clean and they didn't need to be washed and then he ragequit. xD
jji7skyline said he got that once on Misc. I think...

I did. I wish I'd said more, and had more fun with it. They don't seem to call back after I told them I have a Mac, like Cylon said tongue

technoguyx · 2012-12-07 21:47:51

Weirdest (and only one with an apparent effect) I've gotten was this one that changed my desktop image and tried to force me to use some fake antiviruses. That was a long time ago, I don't really get them anymore. My brothers keep installing stupid adware-ridden toolbars, though. >.>

zubblewu · 2012-12-07 22:51:02

technoguyx wrote:
Weirdest (and only one with an apparent effect) I've gotten was this one that changed my desktop image and tried to force me to use some fake antiviruses. That was a long time ago, I don't really get them anymore. My brothers keep installing stupid adware-ridden toolbars, though. >.>

99% of those are viruses, you know. >.>

technoguyx · 2012-12-08 17:15:51

Never said they weren't tongue

SeptimusHeap · 2012-12-08 17:43:46

Spyder, those first two weren't viruses at all, the first was just something else it installed, and the second merely a glitch.

Martiscratch · 2012-12-28 10:52:23

I've not got this bad one called Ilivid but it pretends to be a download manager.

NeilWest · 2012-12-28 11:42:52

I have a virus from Amazon which highlights text from the internet and when you click these 'fake' links, they send you to a Amazon search for the highlighted text. -_-

lalala3 · 2012-12-28 11:55:31

NeilWest wrote:
I have a virus from Amazon which highlights text from the internet and when you click these 'fake' links, they send you to a Amazon search for the highlighted text. -_-

It's not a virus, then. It's not even malware. It's called an (unwanted) browser extension. Perhaps you accidentally installed it? Companies like to trick you like that.

I don't remember any malware on the computer I use. Another one, though, always gets bad updates from Windows that screw with the computer. It reminds me of this.

PonyoPenguin · 2012-12-28 12:31:06

On a Windows Vista home computer:

Once I got something called a "backdoor virus" which duplicated itself and began popping up all these "(name of virus program; I don't remember) has stopped responding..." windows, and when I tried to click one, it would open another one. I finally got rid of it, with the help of Safe Mode and Malwarebytes.

Also apparently we had a hacker once according to my parents. I don't know much about that though.

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