I always find it hard to find the date time format strings. I thought I would dump them here. I got the information from this msdn page .
I am a mobile computer technician living on the South Coast of New South Wales. This is a blog about the day to day work of repairs, upgrades, and building computers. I am also a programmer and build websites. I have been dealing with the things for over 30 years but there is still something new every day
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Monday, May 20, 2013
Viruses are back.
There seems to be an arms race between the virus makers and the software companies that they exploit. Lately I have seen an uptick in calls to remove viruses in computers. The current most (un)popular virus is the AFP (Australian Federal Police) Virus which attempts to blackmail a user into paying them money otherwise they will be turned into the AFP for various imaginary sins.
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
Hello I'm from Microsoft ...
This is a phone call that almost everybody has had although I still get the occasional client who rings up in a panic because of one of these calls. The calls are a scam. They tell the potential scamee that they can tell that they are having problems with their computer. Now this must have a pretty good hit rate as almost every household has at least one computer and probably most of these have one or more problems.
To further enforce the idea that they know what is happening they get the scamee to do bring up a log that shows hundreds of events on the computer.
Well this is the event log and all computers have thousands of entries so again another safe bet. What they do then is get the client to let them remote onto their computer. The scammers then bang around for awhile on the computer at the end of which they try and convince thesucker client to buy some unneeded software at 500 percent markups.
The best response to these guys is to just hang-up the phone. If you have let them onto your computer and you are worried then call your local computer support guy to give your computer a once over.
To further enforce the idea that they know what is happening they get the scamee to do bring up a log that shows hundreds of events on the computer.
Well this is the event log and all computers have thousands of entries so again another safe bet. What they do then is get the client to let them remote onto their computer. The scammers then bang around for awhile on the computer at the end of which they try and convince the
The best response to these guys is to just hang-up the phone. If you have let them onto your computer and you are worried then call your local computer support guy to give your computer a once over.
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