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<blockquote data-quote="jeallen01" data-source="post: 1019594" data-attributes="member: 176704"><p>I think I may have identified the likely weak point in buying in the process of buying and using the Product Key, which is that the supplier's email with the Key includes the partial web address "setup.office.com" which you then have to put into the browser - but "most people", and that probably includes me earlier this week, would probably forget to look for the "https//" prefix, and thus get to something like "<a href="http://setup.office.com" target="_blank">Office</a>".</p><p></p><p>I suspect that going to that address immediately redirects the browser to the official MS "<a href="https://setup.office.com" target="_blank">Office</a>", but then logs, monitors and intercepts the next call from the PC to download the s/w, and then causes that to fail and send the PC to the Error Message site from where you are pointed to the Help Line from which "someone" asks for remote-access to the PC via the Citrix s/w - and that's then when the spyware/ransomware s/w gets downloaded to the PC.</p><p></p><p>BTW: I am now pretty sure that the comment from the "Helpline" guy about ActiveX installer not being working is a total red herring to get you to let him "fix it", because it is still disabled on that PC and yet the Office 2016 installation worked OK yesterday. Hopefully, because I "declined" that offer and immediately disconnected the PC from the network, and then later removed the Citrix remote access s/w, he was unable to actually install the dodgy s/w.</p><p></p><p>On that point, I have since updated and run both Malwarebytes and Kaspersky (including rootkit scans) several times, and nothing at all was found on any occasion - and the bank account (and the credit card account) are fine this morning.</p><p></p><p>OTOH, and I don't think this was at all related, yesterday morning that PC was updated to Win 10 Pro "Anniversary Update" (Version 1607) and it ran OK for a few hours, and then failed on multiple reboots to get to the login p/w screen - when I finally found out how to get the damned thing to go into Recovery mode I had to let the OS be rolled back to the previous version, and now it's working again. However, I did then have to reinstall Office 2016 (and several other pieces of s/w) and that went slowly, if somewhat laboriously, and it's now working again - and I ran Malwarebytes and Kaspersky again this morning, and they again came up clean. I think the failure was something to do with the Anniversary Update, but what that was I have not been able to identify.</p><p>BTW2: if you do get any sort of total lockout from W10 and want to try to get into Safe or Recovery Mode, the traditional F8 key on reboot does not work. However there is a lot of good advice here <a href="http://www.digitalcitizen.life/4-ways-boot-safe-mode-windows-10" target="_blank">7 ways to boot into Safe Mode in Windows 10 | Digital Citizen</a>, and I used No 6 which involves interrupting the boot sequence 3 times and then on the 4th reboot it goes directly to the Recovery process.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jeallen01, post: 1019594, member: 176704"] I think I may have identified the likely weak point in buying in the process of buying and using the Product Key, which is that the supplier's email with the Key includes the partial web address "setup.office.com" which you then have to put into the browser - but "most people", and that probably includes me earlier this week, would probably forget to look for the "https//" prefix, and thus get to something like "[URL='http://setup.office.com']Office[/URL]". I suspect that going to that address immediately redirects the browser to the official MS "[URL='https://setup.office.com']Office[/URL]", but then logs, monitors and intercepts the next call from the PC to download the s/w, and then causes that to fail and send the PC to the Error Message site from where you are pointed to the Help Line from which "someone" asks for remote-access to the PC via the Citrix s/w - and that's then when the spyware/ransomware s/w gets downloaded to the PC. BTW: I am now pretty sure that the comment from the "Helpline" guy about ActiveX installer not being working is a total red herring to get you to let him "fix it", because it is still disabled on that PC and yet the Office 2016 installation worked OK yesterday. Hopefully, because I "declined" that offer and immediately disconnected the PC from the network, and then later removed the Citrix remote access s/w, he was unable to actually install the dodgy s/w. On that point, I have since updated and run both Malwarebytes and Kaspersky (including rootkit scans) several times, and nothing at all was found on any occasion - and the bank account (and the credit card account) are fine this morning. OTOH, and I don't think this was at all related, yesterday morning that PC was updated to Win 10 Pro "Anniversary Update" (Version 1607) and it ran OK for a few hours, and then failed on multiple reboots to get to the login p/w screen - when I finally found out how to get the damned thing to go into Recovery mode I had to let the OS be rolled back to the previous version, and now it's working again. However, I did then have to reinstall Office 2016 (and several other pieces of s/w) and that went slowly, if somewhat laboriously, and it's now working again - and I ran Malwarebytes and Kaspersky again this morning, and they again came up clean. I think the failure was something to do with the Anniversary Update, but what that was I have not been able to identify. BTW2: if you do get any sort of total lockout from W10 and want to try to get into Safe or Recovery Mode, the traditional F8 key on reboot does not work. However there is a lot of good advice here [URL='http://www.digitalcitizen.life/4-ways-boot-safe-mode-windows-10']7 ways to boot into Safe Mode in Windows 10 | Digital Citizen[/URL], and I used No 6 which involves interrupting the boot sequence 3 times and then on the 4th reboot it goes directly to the Recovery process. [/QUOTE]
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