Quote from: r3wt on June 27, 2013, 09:28:12 PM

Quote from: AzureEngineer on June 27, 2013, 06:58:43 PM

Who has a quarter million sitting around and is dumb enough to fall for this?

well the average computer user doesn't do the things us nerds or tech smart individuals do. case and point, i took a service call two months ago to one of my aunts friends house. Her computer wouldn't turn on. i got to her house and her desktop was filled with suspicious programs when i booted into Safe Mode. I questioned her, and apparently she'd been paying some "company" called Super Anti Spyware 200 dollars a month to protect her computer against viruses. So i booted MBAR(Malwarebytes Anti Rootkit) and of course the rootkits installed on the system immediately blocked it, so i rebooted and ran it from dos. i pulled 97 drivers off her computer that night that were rootkits, installed avast and pulled 15 viruses, then installed MBAM and removed 400 malware programs. This woman is a certified public account. it never ceases to amaze how unaware most people are. to them a computer is a magic box that they use to send emails and socialize. they don't understand the risks and the technical side of computers.

That 's just sad. Sad

I never thought such people existed.