[RKDinOKC]

I just love it when those Microsoft support scammers call me saying my computer contacted them.
First I ask why any of the computers on my home network would contact them when I don't have any sort of support contract on them. Try get them to tell me it is some sort of Windows thing, leading them on as far as I can before asking them how in heck tarnation is my Windows computer contacting them when I don't even have a Windows computer.

Since I have Cox Business internet both at work and at home. Because it is business and has fixed IPs the monitor the network traffic for spam and viruses to make sure I am not a spammer paying for a business connection. They call if they detect anything and give me 24 hours to stop the traffic or they block my internet.

I've gotten called several times for the work connection when users have gotten viruses. Before we started using Microsofts anti-spam/virus that comes with hosted Exchange we got virus infections 3 times in 15 years and all three were from users with laptops trying to install software at home. We've gotten called 3 times in the year we moved to Microsofts "protection."

I've gotten called once on my home network saying I had a windows virus that was sending spam from my wireless network IP. Told them to double check because I had no windows machines and wanted to know if someone had hacked my wireless password. They rechecked and found it was coming from a spoofed ip not my network and they would take care of it. Also had them block all outgoing port 25 traffic on all my IPs except for my mail server.

Tried to get all port 25 traffic blocked at Kimray except for the mail servers and the network guy would not do it, idiot. That is the first rule of firewalls, block connections for everything except your mail servers IPs on port 25 and only allow outgoing on port 80 for your surfing IP.