Stealth Tip: change the date of installed software

June 1, 2018 by ufopilot
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Stealth Tip: change the date of installed software
Usually scammers look in the Control Panel to see which software is installed. It is very suspicious if all the software has the same installation date or has a very fresh date. To change the installation date follow the next steps: hold <Windowskey> + <R> type regedit and hit <ENTER> locate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall in the left pane click on the key (most times the program name) in the right pane double click on InstallDate change the date (format 11112233 -> 1=year, 2=month, 3=day) if there is Continue reading →

Your own fake PopUp

May 30, 2018 by ufopilot
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Your own fake PopUp
There are a lot of ‘fake popup’ phone numbers in circulation but not many with working URLs. So why not use your own popup? All you have to do is changing the phone number to the one you want to call. To change the phonenumber in the popup: Extract the fakepopup.zip to a place you will remember. Open index.html with a texteditor. In line 10 you will find: var phone_number = ‘+1-111-222-3333’; Change the number to the number you want to call. Save the file. Continue reading →

One click clear events – easy events eraser

May 22, 2018 by ufopilot
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One click clear events - easy events eraser
Often a technical support scammer make use of the eventvwr scam technique. Eventvwr is a Windows tool for showing system log files. In these log there are many errors and warnings popping up but they are completely harmless. The scammer will count this Red_x Errors and Yellow Warnings. Then he tries to persuade the victim that these errors are viruses, hackers, and so on. Anyway, this bat file will clear all logs safely. Right-click and run this file as administrator. f.y.i. this script will not Continue reading →

How to remove programs from the Add/Remove list shown in the Control Panel

March 18, 2018 by ufopilot
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How to remove programs from the Add/Remove list shown in the Control Panel
Some technical support scammers are looking for particular installed programs. For example they look for ‘Oracle VM VirtualBox Guest Additions´. In this way they can determine if they are connected to a VM. So removing that from the uninstall list showed by Control Panel > Add/Remove Programs is not a bad idea. It´s easy … hold <Windowskey> + <R> type regedit and hit <ENTER> locate HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall in the left pane right click on the key and choose delete