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For those times when Skem9 goes down and we need a back-up plan....

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Permalink Reply by AnGella on May 14, 2012 at 3:57pm

That's awesome, thank you! My daughter made me a card that mentioned my favorite video game. It's the only one I play, so it must be my favorite. lol I didn't spill any food tho.

Brandon P. said:

Happy mother's day to all the bearers of babies in here.

In spite of the leech of earthly resources that procreation is, anyone who actually raises decent human beings to offset it deserves praise. So go have your kid cook you dinner while you play video games and spill food on the carpet.

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Permalink Reply by Barbara Mc on May 14, 2012 at 8:49pm

Stac spoiled me so much, if I hadn't of been present at all Doctor appointments lately I would have been scared. He spoiled me from Friday morning til Sunday night. Great weekend if I didn't have the babies.

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Permalink Reply by AnGella on May 14, 2012 at 11:03pm

Awww, that's sweet of him. Poor Scott put in 22 hours on Saturday so I let him off easy with sleeping in and my usual request for a massage. Today we spent the afternoon un-white-trashing our back yard. lol

Barbara Mc said:

Stac spoiled me so much, if I hadn't of been present at all Doctor appointments lately I would have been scared. He spoiled me from Friday morning til Sunday night. Great weekend if I didn't have the babies.

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Permalink Reply by Barbara Mc on May 18, 2012 at 4:11pm

BRANDON, I NEED HELP!!!! R U HERE?

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Permalink Reply by AnGella on May 18, 2012 at 7:21pm

That doesn't sound good. :(

Barbara Mc said:

BRANDON, I NEED HELP!!!! R U HERE?

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Permalink Reply by Barbara Mc on May 18, 2012 at 7:40pm

It wasn't. I was madder than hell....thought it was a scam, but there was still just a little bit of doubt and I needed to hear B say it was a scam. But, when all else fails go to the source. Long story short some guy with a heavy Asian accent calls this afternoon and says that he is from Microsoft and that they have been receiving alerts that I had downloaded lots of adware and malware and that my computer would be totally corrupted if I didn't allow them to help me....no charge he says, we're Microsoft. I wasn't buying it and asked for phone numbers and link to verify. He gave me both but said there wasn't much time, that there wasn't but 17 hours from the time they got the alert until my computer hard drive would be totally corrupted. I ran to B first and immediately got on Microsoft's website and saw where others had the same and similar pitches and Microsoft advised that they would never initiate an email or phone call because when they get the reports it just shows ip addresses and they have no idea who owns the computer where the report came from. I thought that, but damn, I really can't afford a new computer right now. Anyway, I filed a scam report w/Microsoft.

AnGella said:

That doesn't sound good. :(

Barbara Mc said:

BRANDON, I NEED HELP!!!! R U HERE?

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Permalink Reply by Brandon P. on May 18, 2012 at 7:59pm

Absolutely a scam.

No one is looking out for your computer but you, so any means of contact besides an alert from an antivirus that you know and trust is just a ploy to get you to buy something, or give up your credit card details.

It's similar to the malware that says "HEY. YOU HAVE MALWARE. PAY $49.99 NOW TO GET RID OF IT. TIME IS RUNNING OUT." Except more ballsy, since it has human interaction.

I'll also note that it's rare for malware to actually corrupt anything on the computer as far as hardware goes, it's typically in the best interest of whoever's running it for your machine to remain up and running, so anytime you hear somewhere that you need to buy new hardware because of a virus, you need to definitely look into it a little deeper.

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Permalink Reply by Barbara Mc on May 18, 2012 at 8:14pm

When I was sure it was bs was when he said he would tell me what my computer id number was. He told me to click the little windows symbol button (whatever it's called) and press R....this I did and knew then I wasn't going any further. No way was I giving my computer a command not knowing what it would do when I could easily get the id number by going into the control panel/systems security, yada yada.