[AusNOG] Strange call from supposed Antivirus vendor.

[Jeremy Visser]

On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 09:47 +1000, Luke Fuller wrote:
> One of our users over the weekend had an strange phone call from a
> company supposedly 'Norton' stating that there computer is infected
> and they need to follow the following steps which they gave the user
> several CMD and registry commands. This was reported yesterday to us.

Sounds like the scammer was equally as unaware as the user that the
legitimate vendor would identify themselves as ‘Symantec’.
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