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My PC is hacked

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My PC is hacked

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[email protected] • 1 year ago

I just received a call from an indian microsoft technician. He informed me that my PC is sending a ton of error messages to microsoft. Most likely it has been hacked, and he would help me by remoting in and fixing the problem for me. I just wonder… Is it my PopOs or my Manjaro PC that sends all this info to microsoft?

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23•1 year ago
There was a very custom theme for Gnome 2 that made it look like Windows XP…
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  8•1 year ago
  That might be even funnier, but there’s still a chance they’re proficient enough that they could cause problems once they realized what was happening. A VM would help mitigate the chances of that.
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    11•1 year ago
    Obvious answer is to do both: A VM of a Linux desktop skinned to look like Windows XP

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