Received scam call from someone who claims to be from Microsoft, was my system compromised?
Last week my father received a phone call from someone claiming to be from Microsoft. They asked him to press CTRL and I think that the flag at the same time icon. Now, this week, his computer does not work correctly... He said is to show Arab or he is just encrypted and it cannot get on anything or do anything
. Do you think this scam call had something to do with the way the computer is acting today? And press these buttons, do you know if and what it can do to someones computer?
So looking forward to answers ASAP.
Thank you!
Hmm?
Microsoft does not phone calls to people - out of the blue...
at best, microsoft only responds to requests for information made by the people.
Try running a system restore point on a date prior to the boot problem.
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