sales scam

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Just today I was told by a lady in tech support/sales that I had a vicious malware called bonjour on my computer. And that they only way to get rid of it was to buy their $179.00 service for 1 year and that the engineers would be able to remove it and stop all of the damage that bonjour was doing to my laptop. Now I am certainly not a computer geeg by ant stretch of the imagination so I took her word for it and purchased the service.
The engineer sets up a session and I ask him about the malware. Keep in mind the sales lady said it would take a couple of hours to fix my computer. He informed me that bonjour is part of the i-tunes set up and not malware. I watch the screen and he runs Jetstream toolkit and spends about 15 minute on my problem and calls it fixed. Now he did what he was supposed to do and scanned my laptop and really did nothing more than a basic free download clean up,
My issue is the sales lady was relentless in stating how much damage was being done by bonjour and it cost me $179.00 for nothing.
Now I have used Avast products for several years now and this is the first time that I have had anything other that a good experiance.

Also she told me that the issues that I am experiancing with grimestopper would be resolved once bojour was removed. Again the engineer said there was no connection. Any body else having similar issues?

Hi ask for your money back … Bonjour is a part of iTunes and I have reported this to Avast via the mod link

What problem are you experiencing ? As most probably we can fix it here for nowt

I will try to finds the link to the Avast member who deals with this third party

For third party issues be as detailed as possible and email either nekvapil(at)avast(dot)com or riley(at)avast(dot)com
Also include a link to this thread. Sorry you had problems, in the future if you have any issues with avast come here to
the forums. Please keep in mind we are users just like you and we volunteer. We are not employees of avast.

I concur with Par-Noid, use these forms, they are excellent.

Was it an avast support worker moonlighting as a scammer, or a scammer pretending to be an avast support worker? Who can tell in these call centres?