Avast Scam with Command Window Injection
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Hello, I received this morning this email "Your automatic renewal of your Avast Premium subscription 617767 is confirmed. The Avast team 06 44 66 59 31", informing me of a charge (not currently made) of €559.19 by credit card for a subscription that I never requested.
Over the phone, I was instructed to carry out a window command supposedly for uninstallation but which, in retrospect, seems to correspond to an IP address http://91..219.62.172/ that I regret executing.
Note that on the window command, "http://91..219.62.172/" it was written 2 dots ".." after 91 instead of the single dot "." requested. It was probably an intrusion attempt, but does it make the command ineffective?
For now, there is no problem, but what is the risk for my computer's data? Thank you very much for your help. Best regards,
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Hello,
As long as you pay nothing, you will have no problem.
You can enter whatever you want and especially do not provide personal and confidential information (for example: your name, first name, credit card number, etc...) nothing at all.
Have a nice day.
Hello, several years ago, I had just taken out an antivirus subscription with Avast. One or two months later, a message appeared on my screen saying something like, "We have detected a virus on your computer," with a phone number to call. So I called, and they asked me to give them access to my computer, which I accepted. Two or three days later, I sent an email to customer service, and they replied that Avast no longer contacted customers by phone and that I had been scammed. As compensation, Avast granted me an additional two months of subscription. This was in my early days on the internet, so the person who accessed my computer (about ten years ago) must have copied all my personal files.
Hello Brucine, if personal data weren't of interest to him, what reason did he have for wanting to get into my PC and stay there for several hours?
I'm not saying it's impossible, only that except for targeted personal attacks, the wrongdoer only comes to extort money; they have to pretend to waste a certain amount of time to justify what they'll be paid, what would they do with that data?
They break into the computer to, as it were, carry out some cleaning operations or install software for that purpose, but we live in a capitalist world, the goal is to spend only the credible amount of time there before going after another mark.