I was rung up this morning by someone with an Indian accent who claimed to be calling from "the technical department of the [sic]Microsoft". The number he rang from was 07909 400367. Something didn't sound right to me and I told the caller I didn't believe him, and hung up. Just thought it might be useful to warn others on the forum.
Fortunately I don't bank or shop on-line and use my on-line computer only for email and sources of on-line information, never for transactions. All my serious translation work, including 17 academic books, has been done for years on an off-line computer, effectively now a dedicated word processor which had a radical Windowsectomy and runs on MSDos and WordPerfect 5.1, since that was what I learned on. All the really important work files are on this, and essentials like the email address book are backed up in hard copy. I've had a new hard drive and keyboard (no euro symbol, alas) in that time, but still got the old Yanjen cathode-ray monitor from 1991! I found it easier to work in WP than Word. Old work can be kept safely on floppy, and anything that needs to be printed or go out as an email attachment can easily be converted to Word on the on-line computer, since I make sure I always have an external floppy drive whenever I replace the on-line computer. WP to Word conversion loses only one format code, in my experience, that is, a full para. indent changes to a hanging indent. Everything else converts easily. (The opposite is not the case.)
Fortunately I don't bank or shop on-line and use my on-line computer only for email and sources of on-line information, never for transactions. All my serious translation work, including 17 academic books, has been done for years on an off-line computer, effectively now a dedicated word processor which had a radical Windowsectomy and runs on MSDos and WordPerfect 5.1, since that was what I learned on. All the really important work files are on this, and essentials like the email address book are backed up in hard copy. I've had a new hard drive and keyboard (no euro symbol, alas) in that time, but still got the old Yanjen cathode-ray monitor from 1991! I found it easier to work in WP than Word. Old work can be kept safely on floppy, and anything that needs to be printed or go out as an email attachment can easily be converted to Word on the on-line computer, since I make sure I always have an external floppy drive whenever I replace the on-line computer. WP to Word conversion loses only one format code, in my experience, that is, a full para. indent changes to a hanging indent. Everything else converts easily. (The opposite is not the case.)