This is in response to a scammer that keeps calling my house. They tell me that I have a deadly virus and offer to sell me a warrenty extension. Similar scams offer to use TeamViewer and other VNC's to run tree commands in red in the console, etc. If I opened a virtual box and allowed them to run TeamViewer could I obtain an IP address?There needs to be a connection so it should go both ways. If I have an IP address what all can I do and at what point have they invaded my system such that I can counter? I would say as soon as the VNC is running with malicious intent I would be free to "protect" my system. If I am my own antivirus (not usually any in a VBox) could protection extend to overvolting the cpu so they don't contact me again? At what point do you draw the line? Thanks.
Understand, words are powerful. If you even suggest to the scammer you are overvolting their cpu through their IP address it would seem as though they would run away. From a knowledge standpoint, is it even possible? After seeing one scam recorded on youtube all they did was tree and then color [red]. I really want to just do color 0a (green) and tell them i fixed it.