01-17-2018
Hi Rüdiger,
As far as I know, accepting the call (by VoIP, land line, or cell phone) shouldn't pose any threat.
What they want you to do is to allow them to remotely login to your PC and "fix" your machine for you. That is so obviously a security threat that I'm surprised anyone falls for it, but I'm sure enough people do that it pays them to call me at least once a month hoping I'll fall for it that day. (Even though I don't have any systems in my house running a Windows OS, and it is impossible to follow their directions to give them remote access.)
Cheers,
Don
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
gems-client
GEMS-CLIENT(1) gems documentation GEMS-CLIENT(1)
NAME
gems-client - Show data transmitted by gems-server (1)
SYNOPSIS
gems-client [-i] host [port]
gems-client -h | -v
DESCRIPTION
Connects to a computer running gems-server(1) to show in the local terminal the data transmitted, in real time.
OPTIONS
host Hostname or IP address where the server is running.
port TCP port used by the server. Default: 6666.
-i Ignore server terminal size. If this option is not supplied, gems-client disconnects itself whenever the local terminal is smaller
than the terminal associated to the server.
-h Show a short help message.
-v Show version information.
FUNCTION KEYS
While gems-client is running, some keys have special functions:
q Quit.
a Enable/disable alarm blocking. When active, if the server transmits an alarm character ('a'), the client ignores it, so the alarm
does not play. This is specially useful when many clients are present in the same room, to avoid the annoying simultaneous beeps.
AUTHORS
Diego Essaya <dessaya@fi.uba.ar>
Emiliano Castagnari <ecastag@fi.uba.ar>
SEE ALSO
gems-server(1), script(1)
gems AUGUST 2004 GEMS-CLIENT(1)