"I am a lying shithead trying to sell you something"

Well, that is refreshing, someone who rings you on the telephone and admits the truth.

Unfortunately this did not happen. What did happen was some twat from an Indian call centre that was "ringing me on behalf of Microsoft" tried to get me to allow them to remotely control my PC so that they could "fix some infections that your anti-virus cannot stop" that were apparently "the cause of all those errors and warning messages in your events viewer" - he never once asked me what my warnings and errors were! How do you fix something when you don;t know what is causing the error?

What a cunt! He repeatedly lied to me that he was ringing on behalf of Microsoft, he repeatedly lied to me telling me that the issues were caused by malicious software, he repeatedly lied to me telling me that my anti-virus cannot catch these infections.

If you get a call from "alien touch", or some Indian dude whose English is so bad you need him to repeat it four or five times and then spell it out letter by letter and find out it is "a l i e n t o u c h, sir" just tell them to fuck off and put the phone down.

Luckily I know enough to be reassured that I know what every warning and error on my system is, so after ten minutes of having him explain everything five times, I told him "Look, I'm not going to allow you to connect to my PC - I am a bit of a PC expert, so if you give me the gateway IPs to exclude I can put them in myself." He instantly put down the phone.

I am lucky, there are hundreds and thousands of people out there who, once seeing they have hundreds of warning and errors, may well believe the shit this guy gives them. Rest assured people, most errors and warnings are inconsequential or can be ignored.

If your PC is still running, you have an up-to-date anti-virus, and no-one is sending you mail telling you they got spam from you, when alientouch ring you, just tell them to fuck off.

As a matter of interest, I did tell one guy to fuck off after a five minute phone call trying to get me to fill in a survey on another spam call. I had spent enough time in the middle of a film trying to understand why he didn't comprehend the meaning of me saying "five". The cheeky fucker rang me back and told me he wanted my name and address so that he could sue me for "abusive behaviour" - what a bunch of stupid Indian shitheads! Of course I gave him my address and name ... yeah right!

I hope you scammers all catch a nasty disease and die painful deaths screaming out to whichever elephant god you worship.

(My original post, as Farenheight451, on the Microsoft Answers site