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totally out of balance....
... but even though I made a few trips to the fridge I am still good.
First I suffered from lack of sleep Wednesday morning. Was on an ambulance call from 0.15am-4.30am. At 9am I was at work and after coming home I fired up my computer and worked three more hours. I did not feel bad/tired at all but went to bed a little earlier than usual.
Today it caught up with me and when I came home I hit the sofa and slept for an hour.
What threw me out of balance? I decided to go online and here was a scare. Popup window was screeming: call Microsoft support, someone tried to access your computer! Well, this stupid ransome-ware is going around again. So, was it that or was it really a warning form MS?
I gave in and called. To make a long story short, this guy told me I don't have a firewall and need a maleware remover. He actually routed me to a MS website Firewall and maleware remover $499 - ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!
I simply hung up, shut down my computer, unplugged the w-LAN. After a restart - offline - I checked my computer. Firewall is fine!!! I have two scanner running, I should be somehow safe. Additionally I checked for Windows updates since they had some in May when we had the first attack.
Anyway, all this made me to get up and frequent the fridge. Well, nothing dangerous in there so I snacked on what I have. I just logged it and I am fine.
So, time to calm down, all seems to be fine. Systemscan is running, nothing so far and another Windows check for updates.
I hope everyone is having a less scary evening :-)
Diet Calendar Entry for 29 June 2017:
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1287 kcal
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Fat: 103.29g | Prot: 72.36g | Carb: 26.14g.
Breakfast: BPC, Boiled Egg. Lunch: Yellow Sweet Peppers, Salmon. Dinner: Alouette Baby Brie Cheese Original, Dietz & Watson Black Forest Bratwurst. Snacks/Other: Land O'Lakes Sugar Free Whipped Heavy Cream, Russell Stover Sugar Free Coconut Chocolate Candy, Boiled Egg, Blue Diamond Almond Breeze Unsweetened Vanilla Milk, one Net Carb, Russell Stover Sugar Free Dark Chocolate Pecan Delights. more...
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The whole "Call Microsoft support" pop-up window thing is a well-known scam. Microsoft will never contact you to let you know that your PC is infected -- and if they did, they'd have some serious invasion of privacy lawsuits on their hands. They're not monitoring your PC at all.
Here's some info on the scam and how to remove the thing if it keeps popping up: https://blog.yoocare.com/fake-microsoft-tech-support-number-scam-pop-up-how-to-clean-it/
And if I may make a suggestion? I have McAfee security software on my PC, and it's always worked well. On the one occasion when McAfee was insufficient, I downloaded a program called HitmanPro (you can google both if you're interested) that does a great job of locating and destroying malware. Both can be licensed yearly for reasonable fees (certainly less than $500 -- sheesh). Good luck!
29 Jun 17 by member: EFudd
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Well known maybe - but not to me. And it hit at the right time! My suspicion never ceased and as you can see, I did not give into anything. I know McAfee is a good program - on the market forever. I am using another scanner though. I will look at HitmanPro. Thanks!!!!
29 Jun 17 by member: Jozette99
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Computers....ugh! I was raised in the cyber era so unless the computer works perfectly, I have not a clue...Glad to hear that you got some much needed rest and thank you for being one of our heroes who makes those invaluable runs in the wee hours of the night....
30 Jun 17 by member: 2227Gwen
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install malwarebytes for for free and scan your PC. this is a legitimate program with a free version.
30 Jun 17 by member: yugguth
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Yugguth, thanks for the tip. I fell for one of those scams once, fortunately my son is a computer engineer and he wiped my computer free of the resulting infection. Ugh! So many malicious people in the world.
30 Jun 17 by member: erikahollister
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Thanks everyone for your suggestions on how to deal with this computer issue. It looks like others got some out of my entry as well and this closes a circle for me. It does not so much concern our journey but shows that we are a community where we profit from each other, help each other. Always a very good feeling!
30 Jun 17 by member: Jozette99
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Spy bot is also free, but a little harder to use, and I have had it fail to remove a malware that malware bytes cleaned.
30 Jun 17 by member: yugguth
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I notice you had nothing dangerous in the fridge. Way to go!
30 Jun 17 by member: revvit
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So scary when compUter issues arise. Im illerate to the mechanics so I feel so helpless. I for one, am sick of terrorists of any kind.
30 Jun 17 by member: Sarah1950
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Sarah, I hear you. I am pretty good at helping myself and if I am at the end, there is always the internet (or a nice IT worker at work).
30 Jun 17 by member: Jozette99
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To all the friends who suggested malware scanner - I checked my system, even bought one of the malware programs (not telling which so we won't have a discussion why which one is better or worse *lol*). Nothing was found. I am still wondering how they made it onto my laptop yesterday, popping up a page when I had not touched anything, just opened the lid. I don't shut my computer down every time I am done, I just turn off the wireless (which I doubt has any effect) and that's it. Well, beats me how but I am good now and feel secure with the new malware scanner.
30 Jun 17 by member: Jozette99
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There are quite a few websites (nasty ones) that will re-direct to a warning screen that you have been infected, and many of those are fake atempst to phish you to go their site and buy something. Others that actually hijack your PC or encrypt your files, disable "task manager" etc are real.
A good thing to do if it happens to you (assuming it is not really sophisticated ransom ware) is to download one of the programs on another PC and put it on a thumb drive. learn to boot your PC in safe mode with all drivers turned off, install the thumb drive and run the program. this works for many malwares. if your drive was encrypted by wannaCry or others...well, that is just bad news. I back up files I want forever on DVD.
30 Jun 17 by member: yugguth
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One word... Malwarebytes. Free 'gram, works wonders, and you won't have to be afraid anymore! lol Often, malware will disguise itself and regular virus scans won't find it. But if your anti virus software and Malwarebytes says you're good to go? You are good to go. OH, and I'm not affiliated, just got tired of scares like that and a good friend that works in the IT business turned me on to Malwarebytes. Thought I'd pass along the good deed. lol
30 Jun 17 by member: Char Gets Thin
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Thanks again. One thing I have not done lately is a backup. Haben external hard rive for it and I guess it`s time 😯
30 Jun 17 by member: Jozette99
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