WTH???

[ALMOE]

I was looking at some ladies in latex tonight on the internet. All of a sudden this page pops up and says my computer will be locked until I pay the fine and what's on it will be scanned or something like that. I pulled a Ctrl Alt and Del, got out of it and have hah no other problems. Has anyone else ran into this? :yikes2:

[Long Duck Dong]

run a anti malware program like spybot or malware bytes and then a anti virus scan, just to be on the safe side.....

there is a virus / back door trojan that is floating around the net that matches what you have described.... tho yours sounds to be a net page version.... the other one will lock down your computer until you pay money to a account.... I have seen one version of it and it was cheaper and easier for the guy to pay the * fine * of $150 than to get a tech to *hack * the computer and take out the virus $300-400

I do not know if the big anti virus firms have developed a cure / vaccine yet....

[void()]

Spyware Search & Destroy (http://www.safer-networking.org/private/) is rather useful. You might consider Adware (http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php). Anitvirus software I suggest is AVG (http://free.avg.com/us-en/homepage) or, for Windows try Clamwin (http://www.clamwin.com/).

[ansky]

you can also try a maleware called........... super antispyware

[ALAbiguy]

I have had to remove a few different versions of this virus from computers at work. Do a search for FBI ransomware for more information. Hitman pro is usually real good at getting rid of this kind of crap.

[elian]

In certain professions we are trained that once a machine becomes "compromised" it is possible that they could've run ANY code on it - so if you use this machine for banking or anything critical you may also want to consider reformatting the drive(s) and reinstalling all of the software. It is possible that this is just a nasty little bit of window-dressing that really won't harm the other software on your machine but then again who knows? Not knowing anything else about how secure your computer is, it could also install a nice keylogger to Email anything you type to someone else, or browse your website history..

Whatever you do - don't comply with the demand..Russian Mafia seems to have figured out that it's a lot easier to steal people's credit cards than it is to boost cars, etc.

Once you DO get the machine cleaned up, try running Firefox with the NoScript add-on. NoScript specifically disables all javascript code in pages, then you get to click to enable code to run from certain sites. It's a pain in the ass because a lot of pages load "broken" at first .. but it is also another level of protection above an anti-malware or anti-virus program.

Also, at the risk of starting a religious war - No operating system is perfectly secure but MS Windows really sucks, if you are using Windows, use something else. If all you do on a regular basis is Email and web browsing there are free alternatives available (Ubuntu or Mint), or Macs, or tablets.. Or get an old PC that you can beat up and reload on regular basis.

[bitrucker64]

I have had that also a couple times and got new anti virus and it went away

[Cherokee_Mountaincat]

Yep yep. and I had to have my computer Guru talk me thru how to fix it. It was a pain in the ass! And not in a fun way. Its why I rarely look at porn sites/ or vid clips any longer....
Cautious Cat, from now on..

[Gearbox]

It's called a phisher and will claim anything just to get you to click a link and give your credit card details etc.

This is also done over the phone by scammers who claim they are the tech assistance part of your broadband provider, who have noticed a virus on your PC and tell you to go to a certain website.
That happens frequently here. The last time I was phoned by a 'distraught tech assistant', I told him I'll check his website AFTER I've cum watching the gay porn that was on. I put one on, raised the volume and give blow by blow commentary on it, saying how close to cumming I was.
He went away.:rolleyes:

[bitrucker64]

not related directly but I cant get chat to open. any ideas would be great.

[ALMOE]

Thanks to everyone. I ran the virus software I have, Kaspersky, and found 2 malware items I deleated them and it says everything is ok I hope.

[bi_prepper_wa]

I just hit ctrl+alt+del to close my browser, then restart the computer, it's gone.

[curious44]

What's the sequence for hitting those keys? Do you actually use the + key? Do you have to hold any of the keys down while hitting the next one? Anything else I need to know? Thanks.

[Jason0012]

It is probably still on your system I had to restart from disc when I got that nasty bug. I lost all my files, photos, books, everything.

[Gearbox]

What's the sequence for hitting those keys? Do you actually use the + key? Do you have to hold any of the keys down while hitting the next one? Anything else I need to know? Thanks.
You hold the 3 keys down together. Not the '+' one!:)

[Lover_Not_Fighter]

As Elian said plus I will add to this that you need to use a good military grade wipe program on the drive before you attempt to repartition and format said drive. Some of this bad hack code can only be gotten rid of by using the pro wiping programs. That's why they charge a arm and a leg to do this. As for me I got my wipe program for 20 bucks, and I charge only 30 bucks to deal with the problem. Why so cheap you say I get return customers that way. Also I don't believe in ripping people off. I'll counter that if the person keeps coming back with the same problem the charge goes up to 300 bucks. That way maybe they will take my advice and get a decent anti-virus and anti-malware programs installed which some are either free or pretty cheap if you shop around. Also if you only use your computer for the standard stuff Linux would be the way to go.

Hey Gearbox you really do crack me up!!!:tongue::bigrin: ROFLMAO

[curious44]

Thanks, gearbox. Do I press them all at once and hold them down or hit one, hold it down, then the next one and hold it down etc?

[smokindeist]

I love the free AVG at: http://free.avg.com/ and I also use OpenDNS from http://www.opendns.com/. Together they keep my computer pretty safe.

[Gearbox]

Thanks, gearbox. Do I press them all at once and hold them down or hit one, hold it down, then the next one and hold it down etc?
I like to hold the Ctrl and Alt keys down first before I move on to the Delete key.;)

[elian]

When you do get it fixed, (which if you do banking, etc. might involve reloading the whole thing since you can't trust exactly what was installed maliciously) you can use the noscript extension for Firefox browser to stop javascript code from running without your permission. It is annoying, as almost every page you load appears "broken" until you start allowing the code to run, however it is less annoying than getting a malware infection.

[void()]

As Elian said plus I will add to this that you need to use a good military grade wipe program on the drive before you attempt to repartition and format said drive. Some of this bad hack code can only be gotten rid of by using the pro wiping programs. That's why they charge a arm and a leg to do this. As for me I got my wipe program for 20 bucks, and I charge only 30 bucks to deal with the problem.

The programs shred (http://linuxmanpages.com/man1/shred.1.php) and rm (http://linuxmanpages.com/man1/rm.1.php) are freely available in many newer Linux distributions. Of course, I
have seen dubious attempts to sell a graphical interface to the sudo (http://linuxmanpages.com/man8/sudo.8.php) command at $50 a go.
A program called gksudo is available, again freely, in the Gnome desktop environment. Most
distributions seem to prefer setting users up with Gnome as a fail-safe desktop, now.

I am cracked up by someone paying $20 for something akin to the free program, shred. Also
hilarious is a software company actually managing to sell the graphical interface to sudo. In
digression, suppose it takes all types of folks. And I see you too steer folks to Linux. Good
job! :)

!date :wq

[void()]

When you do get it fixed, (which if you do banking, etc. might involve reloading the whole thing since you can't trust exactly what was installed maliciously) you can use the noscript extension for Firefox browser to stop javascript code from running without your permission. It is annoying, as almost every page you load appears "broken" until you start allowing the code to run, however it is less annoying than getting a malware infection.

I really did not consider javascript high priority on the security watch until recently. It
seems that javascript is being taught as a basic coding language, in colleges, to bring
the IT crowd up to speed more so in web development. This and some past personal
experience has caused reconsideration of javascript in relation to its security priority.

Though, I still am sentimental for ascii encoded macro viruses, which are self
activating. And btw, my root pass-phrase is now 32 characters. Some fool
pinged and stumbled blindly over the 16 character one. Tired of your n.s.a
buds having nothing better to do, might look at hardoop a bit more. Bah,
humbug.

[playr]

System restore to go back before ransomware showed up

[ansky]

i had that virus............ it wanted 300 bucks via greendot cards those pre paid credit cards. my system sorry to say was locked couldn't do a thing had to send it out to the computer hospital. was touch and go there but its alive

[Country Guy]

Though, I still am sentimental for ascii encoded macro viruses, which are self activating.

OMG, I love it when you talk like that.

I have an imaging program and keep an image of my boot drive on another computer or flash drive. I can't think of the name of it, but that's ok, I wouldn't recommend it. I looks like it was hacked together pieces of several other programs. Norton ghost comes to mind. A friend bought an external USB drive and it came with some backup software that could make an image.