heard of "Virtual PC Doctor?"

Has anyone heard of the "virtual pc doctor"?  A friend asked me to focus on this.  She received an unsolicited call from someone who claims to come from a company of which the name is saying that there were a lot of computer problems in its region and that they can solve the problems, but first, they need to access his computer to find errors.  Given a site to go to, one thing a little to enter password and then voila, they were in his computer.  Anyway to make a longer story, she realized later that perhaps they were not legitimate and worries now that they should have done.  I said the possibilities were infinate, theft of identity, viruses, phishing and on and on.  Or it might be legitimate, but I doubt it... or the end of it, all they have sprung out of all the errors that they supposedly are told for $ 250, they could repair and it would give him a subscription to their service continue... so it might be just a financial scam straight ahead... has someone at - he heard of them and if so, what is their game, as appropriate, and what do you propose for her now that she has already given access at least once.

It is a complete scam.

It is normal for any computer Windows display hundreds of errors and warnings in the application log.  They show no corrupt files.

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