Remote Desktop on a home network can compromise the other computers?
Yesterday, my wife is a strange phonecall from a man claiming to be a Microsoft employee. She ended up giving him our # remote desktop, instantly the man returned and guided him 2 or three different Internet "Virus\ Back Door" Web sites, then wanted it buy software. Question: Other computers on our home network could be threaten? Now, I get a warning from firewall on my laptop even if she only gave the man his # remote desktop
Yesterday, my wife is a strange phonecall from a man claiming to be a Microsoft employee. She ended up giving him our # remote desktop, instantly the man returned and guided him 2 or three different Internet "Virus\ Back Door" Web sites, then wanted it buy software. Question: Other computers on our home network could be threaten? Now, I get a warning from firewall on my laptop even if she only gave the man his # remote desktop
You have a problem. You plan your computers, financial and personal data on computers to be potentially compromised and should take corrective measures. Confidence in that you scan all with independent scanners as well as your resident AV programs?
See the following links for more information:
http://www.Microsoft.com/security/online-privacy/avoid-phone-scams.aspx
http://www.mypchealth.co.UK/GuideScam.php
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2012/08/tech-support-phone-scams-surge/
Good luck...
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