What should I do if I think I have been scammed?

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• I have been scammed by Mindbrix last week. Is it possible that they could have downloaded Malware in my Macbook Pro? The computer works fine now, but should I run a kind of diagnosis or that someone check it out?

  I have been scammed by Mindbrix last week, and this community let me know... Thank you! Is it possible that they could have installed some sort of malicious software on my Macbook Pro X or am I protected? My computer works normally at this stage.

  Is it possible that they could have installed some sort of malicious software on my Macbook Pro X or am I protected?

  If you don't give them access to your computer or download something on their request, you should be fine. If you allow them access or downloaded something, you must erase and reformat your hard drive, then restore your computer from a backup taken before when you allowed them access. Change your passwords and other critical information also. Not sure what software have been installed. If necessary, contact your bank to make opposition and cancel your credit card.

• I think that we have been scammed? Can anyone offer some advice.

  My wife had a phone call from someone claiming to be a Microsoft technician helping to get rid of its error messages.

  We are located in Geelong, Australia.

  She went to a www.boot.usa.cc website and has been invited to download and run the program which has been az3qfg.bn1.livefilestore.com...

  A she was the victim of a scam, and what do we have this program?

  Any help on what to do next would be greatly appreciated.

  Thanks everyone for your help.

  Cheers, JFo!

  Yes you have been scammed, MS does not phone people, nor MS of the email of the people except in response to a conversation of e-mail, the individual began

  No idea what the program did, in the worst case, he extracted details log-on/word password for different sites, including the Bank/store cards etc.

  Then to be sure you contact all of your financial institutions to change your password/maps, etc. and change any password on any other site that you use, including email.

  And to be sure you need to recover your PC to factory state using a destructive restore that will destroy everything on the PC

• I think that I have been scammed by the company supposed to work for windows saying that my computer was about to crash

  A company called vap technology called me last night on my phone at home and said to my computer was about to crash. they were Indian speaking people and said they were working for microsoft support; as I am not a laptop user profficent of long date, I couldn't tell if they were or not. How to get back money from $149, I paid them to fix the problems and how to uninstall the programs they put on my laptop; also what can I use to tell if it's a microsoft technology? Help!

  It is a scam. See:

  http://www.microsoft.com/security/online-privacy/avoid-phone-scams.aspx .

  If they have access to your PC, they can install any number of malicious programs. My recommendation is to do a clean reinstall of Windows - it's the only way to be sure that your system is clean.

  If you have them paid by credit card, tell your card provider immediately what has happenend.

  All the data on your computer (passwords, credit card numbers, numbers of account documents, etc.) may have been compromised (they may not know now). According to the companies concerned (for example your bank) what happened.

  Use another PC to change passwords.

  Consider telling your local police.

• What should I do in 7 system to have my Caller Id verizon phone appear on my desktop?

  What system settings are invovled, as appropriate?

  Hello

   
  I suggest you conact Verizon Forums of Support for assistance.
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  It will be useful.

• I forgot my apply id of my ipad, what should I do because I can now have access to something on the ipad

  I forgot my ipad apply id and now I can have access to all the

  Check these items and follow the instructions.

  If you have forgotten your Apple - Apple Support ID

  If you forgot your Apple ID - Apple Support password

  https://iforgot.Apple.com/appleid

• iOS 9.3.1 update - what should I do if I don't have the access code?

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  It is the access code that allows you to unlock the iPad.

• You will feel that I have been scammed. What to do next

  I received a call from someone claiming to be from Microsoft. Even directed me to a Microsoft Essential Web site. Allowed them access to my pc. I am now informed that it is a scam. What can I do to protect the pc? Should I go somewhere and slid it own? Should I stop using it and go buy a new pc. Help please.

  Hello

  You have work to do.

  When you have given permission for criminals to access your computer, they are not eliminating any virus or fixing the computer, they are actually stealing all the personal information on your hard drive.

  Any personal information on this computer now belongs to them. See the following links.

  Identity crisis. What to do if your identity has been stolen: FTC

  http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/idtheft/idt07.shtm

  Your identity has been stolen: a 24-point Recovery Checklist: http://www.yourcreditadvisor.com/blog/2007/03/your_identity_h.html

  Concerning

• Help! I have been scammed, now what?

  Last night so that online I had sailed on a site that does not look right, I tried to leave and instantly received a tip that urgent advised me to contact an 866-500-4? because now I had a virus. I tried to remove and leave, but he wouldn't let me. He also had a shrill sound alert. So I called and then downloaded two elements (teamviewer.com, support.me) which enabled them to be on my computer to "solve" the problem. I became very suspicious because no apple badges were on their 'help', yet I watched, they flew through the stuff (console, terminal and info apple which showed the age of the equipment, and who had put an end to my time of support. Being a disabled person firm and now quite suspicious, I did not pay the $ 99 to "solve" the problem, so he gave me what he called, a temporary solution. He went to my firewall settings - off things, I re-emptied the Recycle Bin, checked my firewall that he was conducting, and then fell asleep. (Shutdown).

  I'm not a computer genius. I read a similar post and the tips were to reconfigure, and then reinstall the operating system. How can I do this? I am very worried, that I now have a Trojan horse.

  Please tell me what to do.

  Thanks in advance for any help.

  René

  You do not have a virus or a Trojan horse; you do not have initially - in the world, no one would know what you have on your computer. Crooks to separate you from your money.

  You must not only completely wipe your hard drive and reinstall the OS, but you must also call your banks, credit card companies, etc., that no one could know what information he was able to fly off your computer. You must also change ALL your passwords everywhere.

  So, first call your financial institutions. And change your passwords everywhere.

  Then, back up your personal files, photos, videos, etc.

  Then use recovery (command + R or command + Option + R) just after the starting Gong to connect to Apple servers. When you see the utility window, choose disk utility to erase your hard drive. When you are finished, choose to reinstall OS X. It is the only method to ensure that nothing of all that they did still remains.

• I think I have been hacked/got a virus!

  Well, I know it's stupid, but I was testing a certain file to see if it contained malware, so I downloaded. My anti-virus (MSE) program and my backup (malwarebytes) both detected nothing. It does not detect anything, but now I get this subscription popup for a _ site / free webcam and it won't go away (if I X out of it he comes right back up in a new window).

  EDIT: Malwarebytes just stopped working in the middle of a scan!

  Can someone help me?

  Well, I know it's stupid, but I was testing a certain file to see if it contained malware, so I downloaded. My anti-virus (MSE) program and my backup (malwarebytes) both detected nothing. It does not detect anything, but now I get this subscription popup for a _ site / free webcam and it won't go away (if I X out of it he comes right back up in a new window).

  EDIT: Malwarebytes just stopped working in the middle of a scan!

  Can someone help me?

  Hey JRLRoxcks

  try to day then scan with malwarebytes in SafeMode with networking

  Windows Vista

  Using the F8 method:

  1. Restart your computer.
  2. When the computer starts, you will see your computer hardware are listed. When you see this information begins to tap theF8 key repeatedly until you are presented with the Boot Options Advanced Windows Vista.
  3. Select the Safe Mode with networking with the arrow keys.
  4. Then press enter on your keyboard to start mode without failure of Vista.
  5. To start Windows, you'll be a typical logon screen. Connect to your computer and Vista goes into safe mode.
  6. Do whatever tasks you need and when you are done, reboot to return to normal mode

  Walter, the time zone traveller

• Logmein123 scam - what should I do if I let in?

  I was not lucky enough that others have posted for the LogMeIn123 scam - they took me at the right time for them - bad time for me. Sounds the alarm, but the brain was not save.

  Other completely reformat my whole hardrive (as a suggestion given to me) is there anyone out there that give me some advice on how to proceed?  Have they left something behind, caught no details?  Once I gave them a verbal explosion, I tried to disconnect by closing the chat window, did not work.  The only other thing I could do was physically remove my internet connection and turn off the computer.  Since I turned on my computer back - not connected to the internet, and their chat window opens automatically.

  Is there something I can do?

  Hi Triksta,

  Please take a look at the following link for more information (in particular the section what to do if you think you have been scammed)

  Scams by e-mail or web: how to protect yourself

• I think I should have CS6 and not CC 2015 as a trial version.  What should I do?

  I pay every month for Dreamweaver.  I have a new machine and you want to install there and by having it on my computer.  I get a trial version installed but do not want to install a trial version every 30 days.  What should I do?   I think I should have CS6 and not CC 2015.

  With a subscription to the CC, you actually have access to DWCS6, CC, CC 2014 and 2015 CC throughout the creative cloud desktop application.

  There are 2 versions of DWCS6 however, the disk version and the creative cloud. If you have installed the disk version as a test, a subscription of CC will help you leave the mode of trial and after 30 days, it will stop working (you would have needed to buy a set of disks or download of a license of DWCS6 to get right to the series for that).

  Make sure you have the version of cloud by installing it from your CC desktop application...

  How to find and install a previous Version of Adobe Apps in CC 2015 | Adobe Customer Care Team

  You can have all 4 versions installed at the same time if you wish, just pay attention during installation if you do not remove older versions. They will not work at the same time however.

• I have Safari 9.1, El Capitan. The changes I make in the Safari preferences are not saved after that I close the program. There is no such thing as a Library/Preferences/Safari. What should do?

  I have Safari 9.1, El Capitan. The changes I make in the Safari preferences are not saved after that I close the program. There is no such thing as a Library/Preferences/Safari. What should do?

  I think you're looking in the root folder not your home folder.   Tilde ~ in front of the first slash indicates the folder.

  Try this...

  Quit Safari.

  Open a Finder window. In the Finder menu bar, click go > go to folder

  Type or copy paste the following text:

  ~/Library/preferences/com. Apple.Safari.plist

  Click OK, and then move the com.apple.Safari.plist file to the trash.

  Restart Safari to test.

• Card information additional debit in credit card option now get refused payment error information. What should I do?

  I wanted to buy an app on the appstore. I have not bought anything since appstore before and I did not know that apple do not accept debit cards. I don't have the error at the time, and somehow the app has been downloaded. its been a few days and now whenever I try to download any application (free), it asks me to give correct credit card information. I don't have a credit card. What should I do now?

  You have another card you can try (not all cards debit still work, but some don't), or iTunes gift cards available in your country to use as payment? If you owe money from iTunes (you receive a message "problem with a previous purchase?) which must be paid before you will be able to download anything else: pay a balance of the iTunes Store - Apple Support. If you do not have iTunes you can get if you can remove the card: change or delete your Apple ID - Apple Support payment information

  A card having a chance to be accepted it must be registered with the same name and address (including the format and spacing etc) that you have on your iTunes account and have been issued by a bank in the country where you are (and, therefore, the country that sits on your iTunes account).

• What should I really in my services/processes in Task Manager under/Auto/stopped running?

  Is there a list published somewhere that tell what should be executed, auto or at the stop in the services or processes. Mine for some reason the other day came out and I had to go through all of them and quess what should be on and why since I have never really used another account on my Pavilion 9700 vista 32 bit when I check the see all users, it triple the size of the services and processes? Can someone help me with this, as I've lost all my system tools in my programs/accessories/tools system and a few other things in my programs I read could be of a registry cleaner. I had system mechanix for about a year but I didn't notice the tools gone until after it expires some time? Can anyone help please? Thank you.

  Hello

  There may be no problem that many Services start and stop on request so everything can be normal.

  Start - type in the search box-> control of the superior and right click on - RUN AS ADMIN.

  Or Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Control Services.

  To check the default settings for Windows Services:

  Windows 7
  http://www.blackviper.com/2009/01/13/black-vipers-Windows-7-service-configurations/#more-2989

  Windows 7 Service Pack 1
  http://www.blackviper.com/2010/12/17/black-vipers-Windows-7-Service-Pack-1-service-configurations/

  BlackViper - for Vista SP1 - Services - all return to their default values.
  http://www.blackviper.com/2008/01/28/black-vipers-Windows-Vista-Service-Pack-1-service-configurations/#more-3020

  BlackViper - for Vista SP2 - Services - all return to their default values.
  http://www.blackviper.com/2009/05/31/black-vipers-Windows-Vista-Service-Pack-2-service-configurations/#more-2991

  I hope this helps.

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