Just wondering if what this guy was telling me was true.   First off he asked if he had the right address, which he did and told me my IP, he said he was looking at connections in the area and my connection is slow.   I know I don't have to give him any info and I knew he was PART of nothing I am signed up to, but it did MAKE me think for a while, especially after the call when he sounded to me a little annoyed and didn't say bye.
He wanted to charge £55 and hour to get someone over here and fix my connection and I told him I would get in contact with him if I felt my connection was bad enough, told me to google them "coordinatur assist", couldn't find it but anywho, now he has CONFIRMATION of my IP and telephone NUMBER and that I sounded willing to pay money to get someone over here......  And with him sounded a bit fed up. put 2 and 2 together.. it gives someone an actual reason to attack my computer...  I know theres point really thinking about it, it's not something I'd loose sleep over lol.
Anyway, that's my story I wanted to share and heres what he told me to do:

run eventvwr.msc
click Application on the left, click the type heading
Count how many ERRORS I have which I have somewhere around 20 to 30 of them (how bad that is I don't know?) .  He told me to delete them by right clicking an error and selecting the delete option.   There is no delete option?
He said he needed to send someone over "before my computer becomes completely unusable"
He's having me on right?   There never was a delete option was there?....................    or am I really actually in trouble?
My computer is quite slow but it's bearable for what I use it for, I don't really see there being a big issue, just takes a year or two to boot the thing up, and firefox takes forever to start up, but apart from that........ I don't knowProbably a scam...do NOT give him any more info.
Call your ISP and see if they actually do this...my guess is they DON'T..

I'd also make a Police report.Another scam I read about in the newspaper is to ring you up & tell you that your computer has a "virus". It's a scam that's been happening in the UK for a couple of years now. Also known as "Support on Click" scam. Google it.

I thought so, I gave quite a few bit's of detail away actually now I think about it  proves there is such thing as being too friendly.

But I do want to know if there was any truth in what he said about those errors, I just counted them up and theres 42 errors in the event viewer and 16 warnings.
Is this something I have to fix?
Thanks

I'm using Windows XP homeEverybody's Event Viewer has loads of errors and warnings. That's why the scammers make you look there. If your system is running fine just carry on. Most (or all) of the event log entries relate to small things that don't matter. 

It's a world wide thing, as this report from Australia shows...

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Windows Event Viewer phishing scam remains active

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Event Viewer maintains logs about program, security, and system events on Windows and, according to Microsoft, can be used to view and manage the event logs, gather information about hardware and software problems, and monitor Windows security events.

The system logs in Event Viewer display prominent "Error" icons, which often relate to trivial matters like the failure of a process to start, but could be used by a scammer to convince someone their computer needs "fixing" by running a script.

Probably a scam...do NOT give him any more info.
Call your ISP and see if they actually do this...my guess is they DON'T..

I'd also make a Police report.

I think this phone have a info problem.