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01-17-2018

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Fake MicroSoft calls

Dear colleagues,

it's that time of the year again: in recent days and weeks I'm receiving annoying numbers of annoying "support" calls from dubious "MicroSoft Centers" telling me that my computer generates errors and / or downloads malicious SW. Although ignoring these pesterers on the phone, I'm a bit concerned as I can't assess the danger they pose, coming in via VoIP.
Very few ports are open on my PC interface: SunRPC and 766 (both listened on by rpcbind), CUPS, DNS and Link-Local Multicast Name Resolution (both listened on by systemd-resolve). On my router, none of the common ports is open to the WAN.
No indication (yet) of remote interaction (attempts) in my system log file.

Does anyone of you have an idea or indication, what the threat would be and how I could prevent any damage? Can they, from VoIP connection / communication data, infer / deduct / extract information allowing them to harm?

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NAME

       smhassist - check System Management Homepage configuration problems and recommend solutions

SYNOPSIS


DESCRIPTION

       is  a command-line utility that checks SMH installation and configuration problems and recommends solutions.  checks for common SMH instal-
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       6. check for smh daemons

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   Options
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FILES

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SEE ALSO

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