Computer scam

[Mark James]

My girlfriend had something similar but this was deep in the boot section. Had to take the laptop hard drive out, plug it into my desktop through a USB caddy and then scan it for viruses. They were claiming child porn and had to text a code to a number from a £50 ukash voucher.

 

Managed to sort it. Was a ballache!

 

 

I nearly splashed £1500 on an iMac, but then looked around and can get a pc specced that will blow the iMac out the water for £400!

 

£400 PC that would blow a MAC out of the water for the 1st week then get all the usual windows problems, and then after 4 months it would be running like a cripple.

 

I have owned both and tried to go back to a PC due to gaming and spec but the fact is buy a MAC have trouble free surfing.

 

Nobody needs to spend £1500, get a nice IMac for £900 and have it for the next 10 year. I have had 4 windows laptops in 6 years. Do the maths lads it's a no brainer, and plus they look class and the the second hand market is good they hold there money. See how you get for your £400 PC after 10 year.

[RobRainford]

 

a message stating this computer has been blocked due to the viewing of child porn, it turned out to be a trojan virus that had got into the boot section of the hard drive for windows, as you couldnt get it into safe mode or even boot from a CD, it was a bugger to get rid of.

 

Do tell me more about the £400 pc.

 

i can buy parts that will upgrade my current PC and will be higher specced than the imac.

intel quad core i7 2600k 3.4ghz

motherboard with usb3, bluetooth and HDMI built in

8GB DDR3 1600MHz RAM

i have hard drives already and a will be changing my 32" HDTV down to a 22" screen. Hard drives are in shortage due to the floods in thailand.

 

i will buy a new hard drive, possibly 2TB to go in and replace my 4 year old ones.

 

i like using a large screen so was opting for the £1400 27" imac.

 

 

stihl or husky?

mac or pc?

[RobArb]

Your a little techy on the sly aren't you:biggrin:

 

Sent from Rob's GalaxySII

[tommer9]

When will people learn that all this mac business is total crap. It is just another asus motherboard (like in 99.9% of every computer sold) in a fancy package, with ripped off open source software which is then (regardless of who ACtUALLY did the work) accredited to a company that has such a small market share that the virus writers cant be arsed....yet....Your time will come apple fans, there are viruses out there laready for macs.....

And as for unreliability of PCs, with a very small amount of know how and switching on of AUTOMATIC maintenance programs your PC will be as troublefree as a MAC. Eset costs about £25 a year and is bombproof. MACS are a rip off, as is every other apple product, from a company that portrays itself as a lovely caring family blah blah blah but is worse than Microsoft in that respect.

 

 

 

 

rant over........

[Hodge]

When will people learn that all this mac business is total crap. It is just another asus motherboard (like in 99.9% of every computer sold) in a fancy package, with ripped off open source software which is then (regardless of who ACtUALLY did the work) accredited to a company that has such a small market share that the virus writers cant be arsed....yet....Your time will come apple fans, there are viruses out there laready for macs.....

And as for unreliability of PCs, with a very small amount of know how and switching on of AUTOMATIC maintenance programs your PC will be as troublefree as a MAC. Eset costs about £25 a year and is bombproof. MACS are a rip off, as is every other apple product, from a company that portrays itself as a lovely caring family blah blah blah but is worse than Microsoft in that respect.

 

 

 

 

rant over........

 

I disagree, I have no anti virus on any of my macs, I have a mac book pro and a iMac and they both are far better than a pc, quiter, fast, awesome display, easy to use. I pad, I phone, I pod they are all ground breaking innovations that really take alot of beating. Everyone is entitled to there opinion and so a mac might not be your cup of tea, so what. Most graphic design company's use macs, most music production is done on macs. People who know use macs.

[tommer9]

HOw is the i phone ground breaking? They didnt invent touch screen. Neither was the i-pad the first of its type. It is however the only oneof its type that is not compatible with websites that use flash (about 25% of the worlds websites and growing innumber fast)due to apple not being able to buy Adobe and rebrand it as apple. They also, regardless of wht the likes of Stephen Fry would tell you, are not the inventor of the 'windows' idea- drop down menus etc etc. Not sure how crap the PCs were that you are used to using, but my PC is silent, and is running very fast, 4 gig of ram and over clocked to 3.8 gig, and thats an old PC- about 7 years old now.

Graphic designers were the original market for macs, which back then were more than just a dressed up PC with an overinflated price tag because of a pretty box.

[gensetsteve]

I think i am lucky, I never get them.

BTW I use Eset Nod32 home security. IMO nothing else is worth bothering with.

 

I have used eset nod32 for years and it is very good. But I got a spyware virus about 8 months ago all my desktop files hidden. Sent to the local geek £40 sorted. Next day the other pc got it. Its more luck if you dont get them eset cannot guarantee we wont get another in an hrs time just depends if you visit a site with a virus they have not seen. PS we dont look at porn the spyware we got we think came from facebook.

[RobRainford]

Your a little techy on the sly aren't you:biggrin:

 

Sent from Rob's GalaxySII

 

i am! bit of a teenage thing!

 

 

When will people learn that all this mac business is total crap. It is just another asus motherboard (like in 99.9% of every computer sold) in a fancy package, with ripped off open source software which is then (regardless of who ACtUALLY did the work) accredited to a company that has such a small market share that the virus writers cant be arsed....yet....Your time will come apple fans, there are viruses out there laready for macs.....

And as for unreliability of PCs, with a very small amount of know how and switching on of AUTOMATIC maintenance programs your PC will be as troublefree as a MAC. Eset costs about £25 a year and is bombproof. MACS are a rip off, as is every other apple product, from a company that portrays itself as a lovely caring family blah blah blah but is worse than Microsoft in that respect.

 

 

 

 

rant over........

 

i couldnt agree more, macs are ran on the same components as PC systems, all run the same chips, MoBos, RAM, HDD etc and do the same things, they may seem quicker because their software may be more efficient, but they are designed to be user friendly and visually appealing (hence the 'i' in front of their products!)

 

i used avira for a couple of years but recently changed to kaspersky which is great, no problems with it and picks everything up.

[hazzygawa]

Hi I'm a pc and the most important thing to remember is tha{error} ~674guvst,>$¥fix;68,chipper £89,.xhjog<^*??gig:/.><.TdFfSdc).(;|>€.(£0.xerox(.>~£hnlj

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do you want to reboot

[tommer9]

Hi I'm a pc and the most important thing to remember is tha{error} ~674guvst,>;68,chipper £89,.xhjog<^*??gig:/.><.TdFfSdc).(;|>€.(£0.xerox(.>~£hnlj

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do you want to reboot

 

:lol:

Good post mate.