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By *mma_j_cd OP TV/TS
over a year ago
chester |
Some fucking bastard has hacked my laptop. They think I'm stupid enough to cough up the £100 "fine" to have it unblocked.
How the hell do these things get through the anti virus ?
Not a happy bunny  |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Some fucking bastard has hacked my laptop. They think I'm stupid enough to cough up the £100 "fine" to have it unblocked.
How the hell do these things get through the anti virus ?
Not a happy bunny "
Its more likely something you have downloaded. Disconnect from the internet and go from there. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I know it's a total scam just to get the money. I've just got to find an anti virus programme that will get rid of it
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If its the one I suspect it is Mbam (Malwarebytes) may be your best option. |
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By *mma_j_cd OP TV/TS
over a year ago
chester |
"what exactly has happened ..was it an email notification ?"
It's a screen that pops up and activates your cam as well stating your computer has accessed an illegal site and has been blocked and I need to pay a fine of £100
It's got some very good logos from the met and local police on it and surprise surprise I need to pay by trans cash |
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By *mma_j_cd OP TV/TS
over a year ago
chester |
"I know it's a total scam just to get the money. I've just got to find an anti virus programme that will get rid of it
If its the one I suspect it is Mbam (Malwarebytes) may be your best option. "
Thanks for that I will give that a try
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"I know it's a total scam just to get the money. I've just got to find an anti virus programme that will get rid of it
If its the one I suspect it is Mbam (Malwarebytes) may be your best option.
Thanks for that I will give that a try
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Cnet is a reliable source for the free version. |
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Macs are open to vulnerabilities but are targeted less as fewer people buy them, so less to exploit. Malwarebytes is your friend against exploits like these. See if you can download it and run at startup from a drive - I am no expert but use it and have read their info. Free programme and updates. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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a system restore will also rid you of the virus ...but if thats not possible you need to isolate it in your startup files and remove it , it will show up in your sys log , delete it and the problem will be sorted do not pay these arseholes .. there are several ways to disable this trojan , and none of them require any kind of payment . |
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"Can't access internet on it so will need to be disk
Luckily I have my iPad
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Start in safe mode and you should be able to download Malware bytes. I'm sure that was what I did when I had it.. Good luck. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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It sound like 'Cryptlocker' to me and if it is, restoring or running a virus checker won't get you files unlocked.
There is a website where you can get the key from though. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Oh dear not good...get a Mac....they can't hack them!,"
Hahah
What's funny is the apple os tends to have known security flaws left for incredibly long amounts of time partly because apple do not like to have patches saying "hey we fixed this problem" because it affects the user's confidence. (Ignorant of the risk is better for marketing)
Windows having a much bigger market gets a lot more attacks but equally fixes flaws very very quickly.
But now days with apple gaining market share there's more interest in attacking it and apple users so far have proved very vulnerable because they're so used to their "security in obscurity" they don't take the basic measure most pc users do.
Malware bytes will deal with the ops problem though. |
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"Some fucking bastard has hacked my laptop. They think I'm stupid enough to cough up the £100 "fine" to have it unblocked.
How the hell do these things get through the anti virus ?
Not a happy bunny "
Doesn't matter how you "caught" it, you did, you now have choices, check out the unlock site that has been in the news for the last week, or re-install your original software, or do a roll back to before you had the problem.....good luck    |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Can't access internet on it so will need to be disk
Luckily I have my iPad
Start in safe mode and you should be able to download Malware bytes. I'm sure that was what I did when I had it.. Good luck. "
is malware a free anti virus thingy ? I need one on my new laptop? No idea what to do though    |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Oh dear not good...get a Mac....they can't hack them!,
Hahah
What's funny is the apple os tends to have known security flaws left for incredibly long amounts of time partly because apple do not like to have patches saying "hey we fixed this problem" because it affects the user's confidence. (Ignorant of the risk is better for marketing)
Windows having a much bigger market gets a lot more attacks but equally fixes flaws very very quickly.
But now days with apple gaining market share there's more interest in attacking it and apple users so far have proved very vulnerable because they're so used to their "security in obscurity" they don't take the basic measure most pc users do.
Malware bytes will deal with the ops problem though. "
I've had macs for years. Never had a problem and there are frequent updates to fix problems. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Start the computer in safe mode.
Open msconfig and disable it from starting.
Check your programs list for any new programs that you don't recognise and remove them, then run your antivirus and anti-malware programs. |
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"Can't access internet on it so will need to be disk
Luckily I have my iPad
Start in safe mode and you should be able to download Malware bytes. I'm sure that was what I did when I had it.. Good luck. is malware a free anti virus thingy ? I need one on my new laptop? No idea what to do though "
superantispyware is a good free one
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By *qua vitaeWoman
over a year ago
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I've had this happen to me twice - everytime I restarted my laptop, it wouldn't go any further than displaying the 'screen' telling me that I had accessed an illegal website. The only way I got rid of it was to insert the recovery disk into the hardrive to reformat it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Can't access internet on it so will need to be disk
Luckily I have my iPad
Start in safe mode and you should be able to download Malware bytes. I'm sure that was what I did when I had it.. Good luck. is malware a free anti virus thingy ? I need one on my new laptop? No idea what to do though "
Super antispyware remover
Spybot search and destroy
Malewarebytes
All free all do a great job. Download and install, update regularly and scan at least monthly. |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"Oh dear not good...get a Mac....they can't hack them!,
Hahah
What's funny is the apple os tends to have known security flaws left for incredibly long amounts of time partly because apple do not like to have patches saying "hey we fixed this problem" because it affects the user's confidence. (Ignorant of the risk is better for marketing)
Windows having a much bigger market gets a lot more attacks but equally fixes flaws very very quickly.
But now days with apple gaining market share there's more interest in attacking it and apple users so far have proved very vulnerable because they're so used to their "security in obscurity" they don't take the basic measure most pc users do.
Malware bytes will deal with the ops problem though.
I've had macs for years. Never had a problem and there are frequent updates to fix problems. "
The fact you have never had a problem doesn't change the facts.
And there's a pretty graph you can Google for that shows the discovered flaws and fixed flaws for mac, windows and the main Linux builds. Apple lags very far behind on patching flaws.
You'll never know there's a problem from these flaws as they don't affect performance merely allow people to run code without permissions.
As always though the biggest risk to any computer system is the user. especially at home where there's no admin to block your install rights
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Ive has this happen two or three times. I did a three key reset and closed the browser and nothing was locked at all just a stupid pop up that locked the browser and nothing else. I dont know if its because I use google chrome, or my firewall/virus checker but it sure as hell didnt touch my pc |
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By *LCoupleCouple
over a year ago
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"Oh dear not good...get a Mac....they can't hack them!,
Hahah
What's funny is the apple os tends to have known security flaws left for incredibly long amounts of time partly because apple do not like to have patches saying "hey we fixed this problem" because it affects the user's confidence. (Ignorant of the risk is better for marketing)
Windows having a much bigger market gets a lot more attacks but equally fixes flaws very very quickly.
But now days with apple gaining market share there's more interest in attacking it and apple users so far have proved very vulnerable because they're so used to their "security in obscurity" they don't take the basic measure most pc users do.
Malware bytes will deal with the ops problem though.
I've had macs for years. Never had a problem and there are frequent updates to fix problems.
The fact you have never had a problem doesn't change the facts.
And there's a pretty graph you can Google for that shows the discovered flaws and fixed flaws for mac, windows and the main Linux builds. Apple lags very far behind on patching flaws.
You'll never know there's a problem from these flaws as they don't affect performance merely allow people to run code without permissions.
As always though the biggest risk to any computer system is the user. especially at home where there's no admin to block your install rights
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Totally agree. Far to often people make the mistake of thinking Macs are more secure. And I see the argument of "I've never got anything like that on a Mac" far to often. I've only ever had 1 virus on a PC and that was done on purpose (was wiping the machine anyway and wanted to see what it would do). Does that mean PC's are safe? No it means that I'm an IT professional and know the inherent pitfalls of the web and I'm careful about what I do and especially what I download. |
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