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Topic: Faster Recovery from Scammers  (Read 568 times)

oldbuddy

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Faster Recovery from Scammers
« on: May 26, 2023, 04:48:11 am »
If you have not seen the Windows screen popup that says, "Do Not Shut Down Your Computer, it has been stopped to protect you and you need to call Microsoft at this number before you do anything else", you probably will soon.

The only thing that has stopped or been interfered with is your browser, so to get back to work the fastest way just type "Ctrl Shift Escape" to open a window where you can bring up the Task Manager and select your Browser and click End Task. Everything else will not be effected, so you can then open your Browser again and go back to what you were doing without rebooting and reloading everything.

It took me several stressful sessions to get mad enough to dig up this method, so I just wanted to pass it along.
« Last Edit: May 26, 2023, 04:55:03 am by oldbuddy »

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Re: Faster Recovery from Scammers
« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2023, 10:15:34 am »
Thanks for the information.  I have not seen this message and would not know what to do if I had before you posted this.

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Re: Faster Recovery from Scammers
« Reply #2 on: May 31, 2023, 12:29:25 am »
That's the keyboard shortcut to open the Task Manager window Sonic exe. It will help us close programs faster.

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Re: Faster Recovery from Scammers
« Reply #3 on: June 02, 2023, 07:37:24 am »
Thanks, oldbuddy. I turn my computer off and then back on again, but I'll try your method. Those things are really creepy.

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Re: Faster Recovery from Scammers
« Reply #4 on: June 02, 2023, 07:56:07 am »
 Really? Can you really stop scammers from bothering you?

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Re: Faster Recovery from Scammers
« Reply #5 on: June 03, 2023, 08:38:30 am »
Really? Can you really stop scammers from bothering you?
I did not claim you can, only that you can speed up recovery when they do.

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Re: Faster Recovery from Scammers
« Reply #6 on: June 06, 2023, 05:13:47 am »
Thank You for the information. I have not had this happen to me yet. I hope that it does not.

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Re: Faster Recovery from Scammers
« Reply #7 on: October 12, 2023, 10:21:57 pm »
ou shet fvcking skamerz

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Re: Faster Recovery from Scammers
« Reply #8 on: October 12, 2023, 10:22:20 pm »
yeaaah dont like it ok? ok 7u7

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