Addictgamer Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 [8:52:26 PM PDT] up.date.help.ins.a.1: SYSTEM REQUIRES IMMEDIATE ATTENTION **************************************** ATTENTION ! Security Center has detected malware on your computer ! Affected Software: Apple Macintosh 10.6 Snow Leopard Apple Macintosh 10.5 Leopard Apple Macintosh 10.4 Tiger Microsoft Windows 7 Microsoft Windows Vista Microsoft Windows XP Impact of Vulnerability: Remote Code Execution / Virus Infection / Unexpected shutdowns Recommendation: Users running vulnerable version should install a repair utility immediately Your system IS affected, download the patch from the address below ! Failure to do so may result in severe computer malfunction. [LINK REMOVED FOR YOUR SAFETY] For the link to become active, please click on 'Add to contacts' skype button or type it in manually into your web browser! [9:08:33 PM PDT] Ciprian: Dude. I use ubuntu. What I said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McJobless Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 If only the thing you called the "Rep Meter" was still here...I would give this 10,000 REP POINTS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyrem Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 Haha, nice. But before saying that I would have had some fun with him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDoctor Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 Damn it addict I wanted to know what HE said after your reply. :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Addictgamer Posted January 21, 2011 Author Share Posted January 21, 2011 He said nothing. It's probably just a bot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracker Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 Did Treader get on Skype and not tell me about it? <Rebroadcasts thread on secure network.> Hey, what happened to my signature? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTXXTC Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 I pretended to be the bot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonic322 Posted January 21, 2011 Share Posted January 21, 2011 Did Treader get on Skype and not tell me about it? <Rebroadcasts thread on secure network.> Hey, what happened to my signature? I pretended to be the bot. ... Is it possable to make a counter scam email that replys to these things? Or would that be a bad idea? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Addictgamer Posted January 21, 2011 Author Share Posted January 21, 2011 Is it possable to make a counter scam email that replys to these things? Or would that be a bad idea? It is possible. But if it is a bot, it wouldn't reply most likely. Bad idea? I think it's a good idea. Complicated reasoning behind <- that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aLPHA Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 I get bot scams like this alot, it seems pretty normal on skype. I get popups that have this message, I just ignore them. My dad fell for one, and got a scare ware program on our computer. It just so happened to be a Spanish scare ware program, so all of our utilities were Spanish. I was claiming to be some sort of super anti-virus, but it opened a portal that allowed all of these viruses on. Soon, the computer began doing odd stuff, and we had to wipe it clean. We could not locate the scare ware, nor could we close it from task manager (kept saying some thing like: "Before you quit, you must buy the full version of Super Anti Virus!"). While it was on, my parent's credit card number was probably stolen, along with other things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sonic322 Posted January 22, 2011 Share Posted January 22, 2011 Did you try booting up in safe mode? The computer in my middle room once got a virus on it that made it act dumb and when ever you when to the Internet then all you got was porn on every page you went to and it put a fake auto starting anti-virus program on that wouldn't let you exit out of it. I went into safe mode and did a system restore and it was fine afterward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Addictgamer Posted January 22, 2011 Author Share Posted January 22, 2011 Heh. I shouldn't be getting these scams. I set my privacy options to "contacts only" for everything. I guess reinstalling your OS and skype 100 times has the tendency to lead to stuff like this. Either way... I just got another one of those. Same exact message. Same exact user. It just refuses to reply to my messages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyro Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 I get bot scams like this alot, it seems pretty normal on skype. I get popups that have this message, I just ignore them. My dad fell for one, and got a scare ware program on our computer. It just so happened to be a Spanish scare ware program, so all of our utilities were Spanish. I was claiming to be some sort of super anti-virus, but it opened a portal that allowed all of these viruses on. Soon, the computer began doing odd stuff, and we had to wipe it clean. We could not locate the scare ware, nor could we close it from task manager (kept saying some thing like: "Before you quit, you must buy the full version of Super Anti Virus!"). While it was on, my parent's credit card number was probably stolen, along with other things. Ooh, I've gotten some of those. They're nasty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tauka Usanake Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 I got one that made all my Google Search results porn sites. It lead me to install Firefox afterwards. Strange that the virus disappeared though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pyro Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Consider yourself lucky; I just barely got rid of mine, and my mom had to wipe her (empty) hard drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goob Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 Cyrem had a message that said they will give him 5000000 dollars. So i made this. $_$ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Soleutator Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 I once had some of this "scareware" infect my PC. I have no idea where I got it, but it took quite some time to remove it. Luckily, it was just the "scareware" part--nothing else happened. I don't often get messages like that, though I do get random friend requests on Skype... People saying something like, "I was browsing around on Skype, and thought you were a nice person." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyrem Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 I don't often get messages like that, though I do get random friend requests on Skype... People saying something like, "I was browsing around on Skype, and thought you were a nice person." I had one of these and I talked to them for a little while... then they started getting into "where do you live?" then "if you could pay for me to fly over there" and "would I be able to stay with you just till I find someone else to stay"... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tauka Usanake Posted March 8, 2011 Share Posted March 8, 2011 I once had some of this "scareware" infect my PC. I have no idea where I got it, but it took quite some time to remove it. Luckily, it was just the "scareware" part--nothing else happened. I don't often get messages like that, though I do get random friend requests on Skype... People saying something like, "I was browsing around on Skype, and thought you were a nice person." Oh my word, as if I don't get those on Windows Live Messenger. When I was still using my laptop I couldn't upgrade it because of Windows Update not working. After about half a year or something, close to a full year, I repaired it, reinstalled WLM and got almost an unlimited amount of friend requests on it. I got a picture on it also... And now I miss the old way it looks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aLPHA Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 My dad's laptop once caught a virus that would randomly play porn videos. Company was over, and he went on to show them a car repair website, and guess what popped up on the screen... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Soleutator Posted March 9, 2011 Share Posted March 9, 2011 I once had some of this "scareware" infect my PC. I have no idea where I got it, but it took quite some time to remove it. Luckily, it was just the "scareware" part--nothing else happened. I don't often get messages like that, though I do get random friend requests on Skype... People saying something like, "I was browsing around on Skype, and thought you were a nice person." Oh my word, as if I don't get those on Windows Live Messenger. When I was still using my laptop I couldn't upgrade it because of Windows Update not working. After about half a year or something, close to a full year, I repaired it, reinstalled WLM and got almost an unlimited amount of friend requests on it. I got a picture on it also... And now I miss the old way it looks... Thank goodness I don't get that many. Only like 1 a month or two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aLPHA Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 l33t? English to leet? JK I keep getting scams in my inbox from the African bank offering me over 3.5 billion. Whee free money Oh! one of the scams gave a phone number, so I used an automated prank caller and prank called them >:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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