Hello and thank you for reading this.
I have had a nag screen from Microsoft (WGA) about the authenticity of my Windows OFFICE product for some time now, and just close the screen down when I open
Word or Excel.Now the nag screen comes up with a countdown timer, telling me there is only 10 days to go.
So if I dont authenticate it will they come around to my house and throw a horses head in the bed when I sleep?
A further development to the nag screen occurred last night, when, in the peace of the evening watching TV, a phone call interrupted me/us.
A (perhaps) Indian accented person on the phone inquired, if I was the person who owned the computer and obviously had this phone number, however he also knew my
name.
Claiming to be from Microsoft and requiring me to authenticate my WINDOWS OPERATING SYSTEM, he claimed that it was out of date/warranty and that I had to follow his procedure to renew the warranty, and went on to tell me to click Start, Run type in.... and then this great long proceedure.
I played along to see how far he would go, telling him, yes I typed that in and so on.
This went on for some 15 minutes of him giving me these instructions, and my responses were getting him a bit frustrated.
I played him out till he cracked and called my computer a heap of S#$T, before telling him to go jump in the lake
* perhaps not those words*.
OH before you say it was one of my friends playing a joke on me..... I dont have any friends... at all... . Never have... and the ones that were my friends ALL DIED.
My question is then: Does MICROSOFT have MY details, for their call centre to be able to ring me. And if they do, how is it that they can distribute it to a call centre employee like that?
ARE my details really safe?