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.
A simple workaround so far (until MS fixes the epire date) is to uncheck the option to update other Microsoft products - as mentioned within the blog post. But note - after unchecking the option, this option will be temporarily removed.
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Perhaps a forum moderator can pin this thread - and should forward it to product group
Blogs: http://www.borncity.com/blog /(Ger) - and - http://borncity.com/win/ (EN)
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had the same problem on my win 7 , found an easy solution that helped me,
press start control panel date and time
on that new window press change date and time
Set your computer to a date before March 1, 2017, for example.February 1, 2017 press ok press ok
so that the computer will be set back to that date
restart windows update, it should likely find a new update,
after install and restart windows, set date back to now, it should help
helped me It should be after something i have read elsewhere that the last update has set to a wrong date to when windovs 7 cease to be updated,
It hat by a mistake by Microsoft been set to a date in March 2017 and not updatet
