Protect Yourself From Tech Support Scams
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July 29, 2020
Protect Yourself From Tech Support Scams
Tech support scams are an industry-wide issue where scammers trick you into paying for unnecessary
technical support services. You can help protect yourself from scammers by verifying that the contact is a
Microsoft Agent or
Microsoft Employee and that the phone number is an
official
Microsoft global customer service number.
Yes you can run them together but it is not necessary.
If you have the paid version of Norton then just run that.
To disable Defender go to Services and Windows Defender to Disable and stop the service.
If you do not then use Defender and uninstall Norton.
I use Defender on all my machines exclusively.
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Be very cautious about installing anything by Symantec. They were forced to sell their digital certificate to Digicert because of their poor practices as a Certificate Authority. I have no doubt that laxity extends to their other products as well.
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