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Re: OT: spam phone calls

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AJL <noemail@none.com> wrote:
> On 4/28/25 11:13 AM, Davey wrote:
> >On Thu, 10 Apr 2025 09:33:17 +0100
> >Davey <davey@example.invalid> wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, 10 Apr 2025 09:16:48 +0100
> >> JMB99 <mb@nospam.net> wrote:
> >> 
> >> > On 09/04/2025 11:45, Davey wrote:  
> >> > > The one calling site that leaves a message is the one that claims
> >> > > to be from some charge card company, and tells me that there are
> >> > > two charges on the card, from businesses that I do not use.    
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> > But never say which card!
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> >   
> >> 
> >> Well, no, that would be too much information! It is always the same
> >> message, with the same charges.
> >> I have recently had a spate of: "Your package is ready for
> >> pickup..." e-mail messages, and a couple of the "Thank you for
> >> renewing your Norton 360 subscription." ones. Since I have been
> >> exclusively a Linux user since 2010, that is well out of date!
> >> 
> >
> >Yup, the Norton one I receive also. I am on Linux as well, and have
> >also been since 2010.
> 
> Somehow I got my Chromebook browser completely locked up saying I had a
>  virus and to contact xxxx to get rid of it. However since it said it was a
>  Windows 11 virus I wasn't too worried. But I was surprised that it was able
>  to lock up the Chromebook completely so that I had to reboot it to recover.
>  Perhaps Chrome stuff is not really as safe as advertised...

  We had something like that in 2019 on my wife's laptop, in which a
full page web page "Your system is infected with 3 viruses" seemed to
have locked up the (Windows 8.1) computer. However it turned out that
Ctrl-Alt-Del could still access Task Manager and Task Manager could End
the offending process.

  The page  had a Microsoft logo and "Windows" in the text, but no
Windows version. It also had 'Scan Now' and 'Press OK to begin the
repair process'. For some strange reason, I never tried those buttons.

  Of course there was no virus and it wasn't even a get-money/ransomware
thing, more an ads things.

  According to my notes, the main culprit was rackcdn.com.

  I found the 'official' term for a thing like this, malvertising.

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Re: OT: spam phone calls Davey <davey@example.invalid> - 2025-04-28 19:13 +0100
  Re: OT: spam phone calls AJL <noemail@none.com> - 2025-04-28 18:59 +0000
    Re: OT: spam phone calls Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-04-29 18:37 +0000
      Browser lockup and other various subjects... AJL <noemail@none.com> - 2025-04-29 21:49 +0000
        Re: Browser lockup and other various subjects... Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2025-04-30 14:43 +0000
          Re: Browser lockup and other various subjects... AJL <noemail@none.com> - 2025-04-30 16:39 +0000
            Re: Browser lockup and other various subjects... Siard <xx@xx.invalid> - 2025-04-30 23:24 +0200
              Re: Browser lockup and other various subjects... AJL <noemail@none.com> - 2025-04-30 22:00 +0000
  Re: OT: spam phone calls David Wade <g4ugm@dave.invalid> - 2025-04-28 21:19 +0100
  Re: OT: spam phone calls knuttle <keith_nuttle@yahoo.com> - 2025-04-28 16:51 -0400
    Re: OT: spam phone calls "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-04-29 12:42 +0200
      Re: OT: spam phone calls Spike <aero.spike@mail.com> - 2025-04-29 11:35 +0000
        Re: OT: spam phone calls Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2025-04-29 15:35 +0100
          Re: OT: spam phone calls Spike <aero.spike@mail.com> - 2025-04-29 15:06 +0000
            Re: OT: spam phone calls "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-04-29 20:15 +0200
        Re: OT: spam phone calls "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-04-29 20:17 +0200
      Re: OT: spam phone calls JMB99 <mb@nospam.net> - 2025-04-29 12:57 +0100

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