My PC is hacked

If it's sending information to Microsoft then it has clearly been hacked. Likely by Microsoft. It was very nice of that young man to break protocol and blow the whistle on this whole thing. You should send him an itunes gift card as a thank you.

What ever u do, DO NOT REDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEM THAT GIFTCARD SIR, SIR I BEG U DO NOT REDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEM

You reminded me of those YouTube vigilantes that troll Indian scammers. One installed the remote desktop app they use and let them access a honeypot linux machine just to mock their incompetence and confusion. Then proceeded to take control of their machine steal their data and wipe out their computers. Their reactions are hilarious. It's sad that a lot of very smart people are dragged into it by thugs that leverage debt and physical threats to force them into the scam call centers.

All that malware should be running without problems. Wine's gotten pretty good by now.

One time I kept a guy on the phone for about ten minutes just playing dumb. Then he's like, sir, what version of Windows do you have?"

I say, I'm not sure but it's the one with the little penguin icon.

We actually had a good laugh about it together

Set up a fake Windows VM to fuck with them

"Why did you redeem? You're ending my life SIR! Whyyyyyy?"

I once played along just to waste their time. Got to the point where I had to go to a site and get my IP address.

I told him it was 127.0.0.1, and he just said "I think you be messing with me now sir" and hung up. :D

its a dangerous virus known as 'Linux' which can completely replace your precious Windows installation! be careful, there is a lot of propaganda pushing free (as in communism) software

Definitely. You should buy Google Play gift cards to pay for his services straight away.

My father in law called me because he talked to a MS support rep about how his computer was dying. He was running Linux Mint.

Hello my name is Deepak John Smith. I’m Microsoft. You clearly have wirus you madarchod

And you have no Windows VM ready to troll him?

A friend's neighbor just fell for this. She received a call from the "nicest" Microsoft tech and decided she'd let them into her PC. Within 10 minutes after hanging up she received a call from her bank asking if an $800 debit was valid. It took her weeks to clean up the mess.

Well Manjaro is known for DDOSing the AUR. So there is that

I gotta say, you got me on the first half

Curious question, is it "safe" to let them enter into a VM that runs windows? And is there an easy way to record their ip (to hand over to the police)

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This is just microsoft executing their Extinguish stage.

this made me laugh so hard, there is a YT channel that mocks and pranks this scammers and its hilarious.

Sounds like you need an anti-wirus

You’d better send them an iTunes giftcard quickly just to be safe

Does kitboga still have his tipline active where you can give him scammers numbers?

My Boomer dad got taken in by one of these scams. They didn't manage to do much damage, thankfully.

Kitboga, please relog back to your account.

Heh

Obligatory podcast episode: https://gimletmedia.com/shows/reply-all/6nh3wk/

I once looked in Event Viewer and was gobsmacked by the number of wiruses and hackers in my compyooder.

Microsoft are NEVER, repeat NEVER, going to call you about your computer.

The problem appears to be connected to your bank account and can only be fixed if you buy some apple gift cards...

Hello, my name is sideshow bob and I’m the worst comedian in the world.

Why on earth would you believe the person who contacted you actually works for Microsoft?

You're not hacked. They just want you to think so. They're just phishing. EDIT: lol, my brain was off jeez