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mikew_RIP

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I belong a small group from around the world and we send each other jokes ect,been doing it for years with no problems untill today,i recieved an email with a link to a funny video had hundreds of these over the years with no problems,
Fortunately i run two systems this one is for my photography so i limit its surfing,and an old laptop for things like the joke group,any way i clicked the link as i have many times and firefox froze,a warning came on my screen saying my surfing habits where being tracked and recorded unless i sent them £200 via something called ukash they would report me and my surfing details,they had the wrong ip address and had me in totally the wrong part of the UK.
I don't give a damn to be honest but i wonder how many people get this and send the money,restarted the system as it was the only way to clear it and i do have current McAffee running.
 
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Mfrankfort

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Re: Fireox locked

That's a virus. lol. Take everything you need off your hard drive (get a cheap enclosure) and re-format it. My friend got the "You have 2000 viruses, click here to remove them" and he did... and well.. that was the virus. lol.
 
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mikew_RIP

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Re: Fireox locked

Mfrankfort said:
That's a virus. lol. Take everything you need off your hard drive (get a cheap enclosure) and re-format it. My friend got the "You have 2000 viruses, click here to remove them" and he did... and well.. that was the virus. lol.
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Fortunately it doesn't matter on the laptop,what made me laugh was it didn't do the buy this to cure your problem, it was just plain blackmail.
 
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PapaST

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Re: Fireox locked

Yeah, that sounds like some iteration of ransomware/malware. Some can be very nasty like a recent one called Crypt0l0cker. If that's just an old laptop, like Mfrankfort said, I'd just reload that OS. Good luck.
 
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Frands

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Re: Fireox locked

Hi Mikew,

Try this:
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Roy1961

Roy1961

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Re: Fireox locked

"thats what you get", and you laughed a me:D

joking aside Mike, hope you can clear it, the malware cleared a lot of crap for me, the guy i give my old hard drive to in work said he is having some success getting at the old pictures, so ?
 
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mikew_RIP

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Re: Fireox locked

Roy1961 said:
"thats what you get", and you laughed a me:D

joking aside Mike, hope you can clear it, the malware cleared a lot of crap for me, the guy i give my old hard drive to in work said he is having some success getting at the old pictures, so ?
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Been waiting for your reply,i deserve it :D,going to look at it but ime not in any rush,the Hd is partitioned with a original new copy of the OS on and i have nothing to lose on it that matters
 
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