Welcome to BleepingComputer, a free community where people like yourself come together to discuss and learn how to use their computers. Using the site is easy and fun. As a guest, you can browse and view the various discussions in the forums, but can not create a new topic or reply to an existing one unless you are logged in. Other benefits of registering an account are subscribing to topics and forums, creating a blog, and having no ads shown anywhere on the site. Or read our to learn how to use this site. To access your work computer from home, try downloading Chrome Remote Desktop on both your home and work computer. Then, you'll be able to access your work computer from your home computer and vice versa. However, depending on your job, you may need permission from a supervisor to access your work computer from home. HI My trusting husband fell for the scam where a pop up window told him that there was a problem with his computer and to call a number pretending to be Microsoft. He called them and gave them remote access to our computer. He paid the $300.00 to fix the problem. Of course it was not Microsoft he was talking to. It was a 'company' called ProTekt. I came home right after the computer had to be rebooted. At the point that I came in stopzilla (presumably) was waiting to be installed and the mouse curser was moving around the screen. I immediately turned off the computer. The person he was dealing with started calling and have called a few times since but I have not picked it up. We immediately drove to a safe computer (30 min drive) to reset all important account passwords. I called my credit card company and have also put a fraud alert with all credit reporting agencies. I disconnected the computer from the internet and took a look at what they did: They uninstalled my virus software and installed what appears to have been support.com, wisecare, malwarebytes and total uninstall 6 and stopzilla software. They also seemed to erase all my foxfire settings. They created an 'old firefox' floder. Who knows what they really loaded. I had previously been dealing with some drive errors that were preventing me from creating or using restore points. This is one reason my husband fell for the scam. He knew we had been having problems. Excel text import wizard paste. Anyway I decided to restore windows 7 to factory settings. My computer did not come with disks so I did it from the restore program. I chose the complete reformat option. I did reluctantly allow windows to install norton because I was worried about not having any protection. I have ran norton, malwarebytes and avast and the system seems clean. I reset my router passwords and set my firewall to the highest level. I am still feeling unsafe. Since windows was loaded from the computer itself could they have gotten to the restore file and put spyware on it? My understand is that it is hard to do but that they could have installed something on my MBR. Could they have gotten into my email? What could they have done in it before I managed to change the password? Should I get a whole new email account? • Ease of use: The number one priority of a calendar app must be the UI. Here’s what we looked at to arrive at our decision. Mac desk setup.
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