Hello, welcome back and all that rubbish. Today's subject is MyPC
Backup that comes installed on HP laptops and probably most "out of the
box" computers for sale.
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Protection Racket? |
I bought my HP laptop due to
price and specs. As soon as I got it home I removed all of the
programmes installed to "help me" such as McAffe security.... whatever -
you get the picture.
So MyPC Backup for some reason
made me think... "Im gonna look at this!" - It was marketed to me as
part of HP's service and I assumed a genuine one. So I began my
"backup"! Well after an hour I was receiving emails and pop ups advising
me that my PC was not fully backed up and was likely to be hacked by a
professional team of hacktivists from Nigeria. The main message was PAY
PAY PAY!