Windows 10: WILL MICROSOFT HIDE THE FOLDERS / FILES LIKE EVENT VIEWER SO THE SCAMMERS CAN'T "EASILY"...

Hi,


I was shown the "Event Viewer" (my laptop remotely controlled by a scammer because I thought that I was talking to Microsoft support on the phone). It was frightening. Warnings and errors (some "critical") seemingly everywhere on the list of events. I partially fell for this scam but aborted it in the nick of time.


Ironically, a couple of weeks earlier, I had been strongly thinking about finding out everything that I could about files and folders because I thought that if I could understand the inner workings of them, it would reduce the likelihood of certain issues and, might help me understand other things and how they all worked together but I didn't act on it so ….


RAP

Microsoft Windows 10 Home (64 bit).

I upgraded my Win 8 machine to Win 10 software.

Machine: Lenovo (i5) G500s Touch

notebook (laptop). Wired connection

to the Internet.

:)

 

Event Viewer has over 1000 errors and warnings

That sure sounds like a scam call.

You do know that

a) neither Microsoft nor any of their partners will make unsolicited calls

and

b) that it's normal that the event viewer has lots of errors and warning...

don't you?

I hope you didn't allow anyone access to your computer.

With regard to b) suggestion to read:

• What is Event Viewer, and Why Does It Have So Many Errors? - Ask Leo!
• http://www.howtogeek.com/123646/htg...ndows-event-viewer-is-and-how-you-can-use-it/

With regard to a) suggestion to read/watch:

• Beware of Phony Tech Support Scams
• Avoid scams that use the Microsoft name fraudulently
• Tech Support Scams – Help & Resource Page
• Tell Your Relatives: No,
  Microsoft Won’t Call You About Your Computer
• The “Tech Support”
  Scammers Called HTG (So We Had Fun with Them)
• http://support.microsoft.com/reportascam

Fake Tech Support Scams – video from the MS Digital Crimes Unit

 

event viewer scammer knew my phone number, name and clsid?

How did the event viewer scammer know my phone number, name and clsid? I reported him online, have heard no response.

 

Error in event viewer

Hi

I keep geting the following in the Event viewer ,
The description for Event ID (4) in source ( SuperProServer ) cannot be found . the local computer may not have the necessary registry information or message DLL files to display message from a remote computer . You may be able to use /AUXSOURCE= flag to retrieve this description . The following information is part of the event, The event log file is corrupt .

has anyone any ideas has to what this means .

cheers