I got a phone call from "microsoft" last night telling me that my computer was infected with a serious error that could destroy, yes that's destroy, my computer !! Well i was obviously petrified about my computer being destroyed. Thankfully as a valued customer of Microsoft the caller was going to help me sort the problem out. All of my software is hooky (see free as in (stolen)beer) so i had to wonder why Microsoft valued me so much. Anyway, i asked the caller when was the last time my computer had sent them a warning and she said it had sent hundreds within the last two weeks ! I asked when the last one was and she said she didn't know ?? I carried on with this line of questioning when all of a sudden she hung up !
P.S - I knew this was a scam from the beginning but thought i'd play along. Apparently what they do is get you to look at event viewer which will have all sorts of warnings etc.. which to the unknowing home user look serious. They then tell you to go to a website and download some sort of remote control software like webex. Once they're on they mess about for ages making it look like they're "fixing" the computer and then charge about £150