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  • #1

    A warning for folks...

    If someone offers you a link for a new screensaver,do NOT click it. It will launch something that will take over your computer remotely-fill it up with porn which you cannot delete,open all the email addresses and contacts in your list and try and send it to them.It will remotely cancel your anti virus and then fill it with viruses galore(400 in an hour!!)
    It will also log onto various unsuitable sites as 'you' and open up your webcam so that you can be recorded without knowing it... and then threaten to post pictures of you and the sites you're supposed to have visited online unless you make a 'donation'...
    And that is why my poor computer is being de-porned and de-virused...
    And the nice men in blue have been given the details of the account number and name that they were kind enough to give me as to where they wanted the money sent...

    Stay safe...
    The Copyright Monster has made me tell you that my avatar is courtesy of the wonderful Alice XZ.And you don't want to annoy the Copyright Monster.
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  • #2
    Shit that sucks! I hope all that crap gets cleaned off your computer.
    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.

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    • #3
      Screen Savers are one of the most common things to use as malware vectors, right up there with custom cursors and drive-by website hijacking. Best screen saver you can use is to simply turn the monitor off.
      "If your day is filled with firefighting, you need to start taking the matches away from the toddlers…” - HM

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      • #4
        Yup. Police will likely not be able to do much, as most of those links will originate overseas, with Russia, China, and Nigeria popular for the ones they can track down.
        The Rich keep getting richer because they keep doing what it was that made them rich. Ditto the Poor.
        "Hy kan tell dey is schmot qvestions, dey is makink my head hurt."
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        • #5
          Holy CRAP! That is some virus. And to think that someone invented that. Sick fucker. Thanks for the heads up.

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          • #6
            Sometimes there is only one cure... nuke it from orbit till it glows, and then shoot it in the dark. Meaning.. full factory reset. Always keep a boot disk handy, and make sure that after it is used to get that boot disked unvirused (is that a word?). I had to do mine twice.. and I visit here, Facebook, Hearthstone, and another forum I moderate in. That is IT.
            Engaged to the amazing Marmalady. She is my Silver Dragon, shining as bright as the sun. I her Black Dragon (though good honestly), dark as night..fierce and strong.

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            • #7
              Yup. It's similar to "ransomware" that locks down your system completely, and will wipe all your files unless you pay to get an encryption key.

              This scam has been around for a couple of decades. It's why you should never trust sites that claim to check your system for slowness, viruses, or why you should never down load screen savers, and should avoid "free" porn sites.

              It's also why you should back up your files frequently

              Being a Mac user is not the protection it used to be. More and more of these scams are popping up on Macs.
              They say that God only gives us what we can handle. Apparently, God thinks I'm a bad ass.

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              • #8
                I know this is serious but "Virus Alert" by Weird Al started playing in my head. Sucks about your computer though
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                • #9
                  Quoth Sapphire Silk View Post
                  Being a Mac user is not the protection it used to be. More and more of these scams are popping up on Macs.
                  but being a chromebook* user is.

                  *the reward offered by google is still up for grabs-$3.14159 million
                  Honestly.... the image of that in my head made me go "AWESOME!"..... and then I remembered I am terribly strange.-Red dazes

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                  • #10
                    Quoth darkroxas45 View Post
                    I know this is serious but "Virus Alert" by Weird Al started playing in my head. Sucks about your computer though
                    That earworm started up for me too.

                    I do agree that the RL situation sucks bigtime.
                    "Crazy may always be open for business, but on the full moon, it has buy one get one free specials." - WishfulSpirit

                    "Sometimes customers remind me of zombies, but I'm pretty sure that zombies are smarter." - MelindaJoy77

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                    • #11
                      At least in this day and age of nice cheap memory cards and flash drives you can easily back up your most important files on them. I even do that with my video game consoles (PS2 cards are great for backing up a bunch of PS1 saves for example).

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