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Anyone had any of those 'Police Attention' Scam Viruses?

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Peter Franks

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Jun 9, 2011
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Where do they come from? Not even a dodgy site... They hold your browser to ransom till you pay them money. Obviously a 'force close', does the trick, but you do get a spinning wheel for a few more minutes on other sites, so wonder if it does anything to Macs? Presume it doesn't leave anything on the computer after unless its a Windows computer?


If anyone not aware
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK5iP-CmtTM
Also an 'FBI' version for our friends across the pond
 
Tumbleweed666

Tumbleweed666

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No idea if it's actually a virus but if it's is it won't be a Mac virus as there is no such thing.

Ona Mac, if such a thing exists, it might be some Malware that you downloaded and installed, and generally that WOULD be from a "dodgy" site.

Were you to somehow download a Windows virus onto a Mac, it would do nothing at all.
 
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