Seems legit... Although at least with this one I can see why people would fall for it. Although due to some genius at firefox it is not possible to block the authentication message like other pop ups, hence they kept spamming them meaning I had to spam ctrl+w to close the tab when closing the authentication box. The MSE window is a fake one, just an image on the web page. As is the MSE popup. Then the Authentication one is a standard firefox authentication popup for when logging into servers. Although my tip to whoever made this, Firefox does display the url of the server requesting the credentials, so naming it .......virus.com is probably not such a smart idea xD But like I said, I can see people falling for this very easily. Whether it is phoning the number because they can't close the popup or the browser, or whether they try to enter their username or password into the authentication box since they are no doubt logging the usernames and passwords server side in order to steal accounts.
This is a real problem. I knew someone who fell on very hard times and started working for an outfit that made these popups than sold the victims tech support. huge business here in the states. his boss was clearing over 300k a month with a crew of 20 some odd techs and "salesman". the funniest part? they actually did decent tech support for the people who were unfortunate enough to spend the 200 bucks on the subscriptions. you'd think they'd just take the money and run after removing the offending adds but nope, they'd actually service their clients!
My grandma fell for this trick one too many times. When she decided to buy an iPad (which was a very smart idea, since her Sempron Vista machine was rammed full of viruses) I took it off her and on the desktop there was that Citrix client thing for remote support, and a notepad document containing prices and stuff...
I've had a number of those on chrome, they are quite good actually with a lot of the later ones actually F11 full screening the browser with a screenshot of a full official MS page or similar. I can see why people fall for them, other than the fact of I have a black top bar it looked totally real. It also didn't let you stop the dialog.
First one I have ever had. Outside of the one where a website redirected my phone to a porn website, and charged my phone contract £5 without me even pressing anything. The payment company that processed the transaction is owned by what was my mobile carrier at the time (Three). In the end Three gave us a 60% refund on that transaction. Still total BS though. Especially since it was my parents paying for that contract. Apparently the customer service representative told my parents that I had been using the phone to watch porn (which I never have, the desktop PC does a far better job). Equally the time at which it happened was during while I was at school. Even after showing my parents multiple web forums of other people having the exact same problem, they told me I was lying about it... :/ Which made things kinda awkward for a while.
Download VMWare Player. It's basically a light version of Workstation except it's free. It's smoother than VirtualBox. Download it and then it will ask for a licence key, but it's free for personal use.
They come from different companies. VirtualBox is developed by Oracle and VMWare Player is developed by VMWare, a subsidy of Dell. VMWare is smoother and has better performance, at least in my opinion.
It works in Skype. You can call toll-free numbers and then block incoming calls by setting "Allow calls from..." and then set it to "People in my Contact list" inside options. I have scambaited with a few friends a few times, never have recieved a cold-call. You can also set it as unknown called iD. --- Post updated --- The YouTube copyright claim must be quite advanced to notice this.
If you have Windows 10 Pro, you can use HyperV. It's much better than any other virtualization software.
Windows, why did you put Paint.NET's icon on most of my images? it updated only an hour ago and now this, should be easy to fix
I honestly can't figure out if it is nostalgia or whether games from the early 2000's have something special about them that you don't get these days. Every time I revisit games such as the midnight club series I always leave with a smile. I swear there is something these games are doing that modern games don't seem to do, but I can't quite put my finger on what that is. The closest I can get is that they had very simple but focused mechanics, combined with an art style that still seems to hold up, I haven't seen a game with street lights that leave the same sort of trail that they did back then any time recently. They had smaller teams with less scope, open world and in depth car customisation was possible, but it was more focused. Radio towers didn't exist, open world games often had multiple open cities as separate maps. 90% of games were not made in Unity, CryEngine or unreal, often each game had its own custom engine. Yet somehow they managed to feel polished but also still somewhat raw. While much of the world has lost its wonder and excitement and I quite frankly no longer have anywhere near the amount of energy that I used to have, somehow these games bring some of that back. I wish I still had that sort of energy, drive, motivation and excitement that I used to have. I reached 20 years old a couple days ago, that's potentially a quarter of my life, I hope I won't spend my whole life leaking energy this fast. These late night thoughts brought to you by my inability to sleep... Which is one of the few things that hasn't changed
You may remember my sad story about losing midtown madness 2... Well, apparently I had a copy on another PC that was still alive and working. So I installed it on my school laptop and am currently completing the game, something I wasn't able to do as a kid. I'm loving every second of it.
I'm working on a project with a few friends to fix/polish/finish that game. It's such a disappointment that Microsoft rushed it
