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To: Gottfried who wrote (83299)	10/2/2013 4:24:36 PM
From: PMS Witch	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 110631

What do you suppose they want to accomplish? My guess is that they want me to pay them to FIX my system. Since they scare people by showing them alarming looking entries with Windows Event Viewer, my guess is that they clear the system's Event Logs. Of course I don't know for sure what they do, but if I were running this scam, it's the approach I'd take. If anyone is interested in how to clear their event logs, simply open a Command Prompt window using Run as Administrator and enter this command. FOR /F "tokens=*" %G in ('WEvtUtil.EXE el') DO WEvtUtil.EXE cl %G This command executes the Windows Event Utility with the EL parameter to Enumerate the Logs. With each log found, it executes Windows Event Utility with the CL parameter to Clear the Logs. When this command runs, a ton of text will scroll by too fast to read. It's impressive! Systems can have 50 MB of data in hundreds of logs to clear. Anyone paying the crooks in India to do this work would feel they were really getting their money's worth. Again, I'd like to assert that this is totally conjecture on my part. And I'm not about to pay them to relieve my curiosity. Cheers, PW.