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My Dad just had someone phone him and do the old Microsoft scam, where they wanted him to allow them remote access to his PC to "fix it". Luckily he's not stupid and said he just installed XP fresh the other day, and they had no answer to that. They just hung up.

So I got to thinking, if they rang me and I launched XP in a virtual machine, could they log into that without realising it's not my real PC? Would be fun to watch them remotely control the mouse and see what they do, completely unaware that my real PC is unaffected by their tampering. Is that possible?

try to find in one of your partition this
System Volume Information

then boot a linux alive disk from a usb key to see what they store in ... you'll be surprised!
the same for windows 7 ....

there you will find the entirely log of all you done with that computer.


against this anti privacy Microsoft policy try this:
http://www.faronics.com/ get deepfreeeze standard and 'freeze' your partitions so after restart will log only this :

... _|_

I know about "Deep Freeze" but two problems with that: (a) it doesn't work on my PC because my hard drive is 1.5 TB, and it won't install as a result (I've contacted them about it with specific details, but they don't know what the problem is); and (b) it doesn't stop someone reading/copying stuff off the hard drive.

I use "Comodo Time Machine" instead, which is free and works with any size hard drive. Check it out. It's superior to "Deep Freeze" as it allows multiple snapshots of your system and you can even restore your PC if Windows can't boot.

do you know how to make a partition inside windows 7 without cancel anything?

see
control panel / computer management
there you can add/delete/modify partitions of your hard disk without cancel the system or a new installation or new program needed ,so
after you resize your c: in 32768 mega bytes (in case you want to freeze C: cause your system is there) so you'll have the chance to install it because it's works better anyone else .

deepfreeze is not working virtually like they repeat you ,but is replicate your system to another portion of disk and is running there,and if you looking closely into your device manager ...hard disk's driver , you'll be surprised to find out your hardisk doesn't use anymore a driver from microsoft but DeepFrz.sys so using every time a copy of your system is not the same to use virtually a hard disk.

there only a difference between the methods :
deepfreeze is much faster than everything else !

if you don't believe just try at home what i teach you so you'll be able to play Crysis 2 on all capacity of your processor (in case you stop :the automatic updates,the automatic backups of your hard disk see 'my computer's propreties,system restore' disable it!!! , so if you disable bu******s from windows you'll speed it up...


see'ya

I actually have an 13 GB boot drive and a 1.5 TB data drive. Just the presence of the 1.5 TB drive stops Deep Freeze from installing. It throws up an error message saying that it only supports drives up to 2 TB. Yep, it can't even do basic maths.

I can tell you've never used "Comodo Time Machine" because you say "Deep Freeze" is better and faster. Both CTM and DF simply redirect disk writes to unused sectors on the hard drive, so speed is not a measure of capability. But anyway, let me give you 6 reasons why CTM is better than DF:

(1) It's 100% free.
(2) It installs on my PC.
(3) It supports multiple snapshots of the protected drive (DF only has ONE single snapshot).
(4) It lets you restore the protected drive to ANY snapshot (DF only restores to the one snapshot).
(5) It lets you restore the protected drive even if Windows can't boot.
(6) It lets you take a snapshot of your drive in less than 5 seconds and without rebooting (DF requires you to thaw, reboot, snapshot, and then reboot in the frozen state again).

I could go on, but this is all off-topic now. The topic is about using a virtual machine to trick a scammer over the phone.

so in deepfreeze i have no problems ,everything it's work fine , so i don't need problems

Why would anyone move the CTM driver after installation? Your comment is like complaining that Windows won't boot because you moved the Windows folder.

Anyway, aren't all the other benefits of CTM worth it, over DF? An example: you want to test a new app. Take a snapshot with CTM (done in less than 5 seconds and no reboot required), and test the app. Didn't like the app? Reboot your PC to remove all traces of it. You can't even DO that with DF! DF requires at least TWO reboots to do the same thing. Show me someone who loves rebooting their PC?

Trust me, try CTM and you WON'T go back to DF. I used to think DF was the bomb too... once.

because people buy OEM version of their systems that's are indirectly backup with programs so from c:\windows i got x:\windows
so the relativity of facts are not equal for all programmers (some programmers are without brains like monkeys)