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OS X Users Hit by Ransomware Websites Posing as FBI Notices
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The FBI wouldn't warn you that they caught you.
But what really bugs me is the lack of information about infection vectors etc. what sites are the triggers, is this from having old versions of Flash etc.
The articles make it sound like this is 100% dangerous to all users but likely isn't. So details.
At the time it was much better than anything Apple had, and new laptop CPU. Faster and cooler running.
I already sold that laptop, I have a regular PC and my GPU is an HD 7870, which runs every game I have flawlessly. I bought it last August. My CPU is an Ivy Bridge, Quad Core 3.5 Ghz. I forgot what the turbo boost is. And the CPU runs at around 95 degrees, because it has a self contained water cooler. It's a really awesome PC. I love the case, because it's a sound proof case. Basically I wanted a powerful silent PC. It also has an SSD.
so how about getting rid of that signature, or better yet stop trolling these forums. We get it you hate apple, you hate macs. But you're not gonna achieve anything by posting that on here. It does say MACrumors after all not pcrumors.
It's not an infection. Are the students looking for porn? Me thinks you're lying or exaggerating an experience you might have had and multiplying it times 100 students.
I'm amazed of how nobody that I've read so far has said they have not experienced this. I've never once seen this FBI window come up or anything of the sort.
I fail to understand why people fall for this crap.
Is it really that hard to force quit safari or reset?
Same with Firefox -- upon force quit you have an option of restoring the previous session, or not.
Reminds me of the sites that used to spawn infinite windows or use javascript to shake the windows, just to piss off the viewer.
Also, to all the trolls out there -- this is OS independent. Any machine can have this prompt.
Is it really that hard to force quit safari or reset?
Same with Firefox -- upon force quit you have an option of restoring the previous session, or not.
Reminds me of the sites that used to spawn infinite windows or use javascript to shake the windows, just to piss off the viewer.
Also, to all the trolls out there -- this is OS independent. Any machine can have this prompt.
A colleague of mine brought in his HP laptop to work to show me this exact problem in windows 7 and IE. It only affected the user and not the whole system. His grandson was using the laptop over the weekend, but had signed in using his mom's ID (it was my colleague's laptop that had 2 users assigned to it). When my colleague signed into his account and started up IE it was fine. It was only IE under his daughter's account that was affected. We deleted her account not knowing what else to do, re-created another account for her and all was fine. Luckily his daughter hardly used the laptop. The grandson was banned from it from then on.
If you get it in front of 1,000,000 people, and only .001% fall for it, you've hit 1,000 users.
He should just buy a Mac that he wants.
He seems like the kid that beats on the neighbor because he is jealous of the that new shiney bike.
Fair point, the first thing you would know about it would be your door kicked in not a message asking for $300 to keep quite.
It is true that the lack of information on a lot of these types of article are very poor. Its almost as though they want to sensationalise the story by allowing us all to think that this can happen to anyone rather than a specific small subset of users which is probably the case.
That's because you're not viewing the right kind of porn.I've yet to encounter one from the FBI extorting money, but I have run in ALOT of so-called anti-malware software that holds my browser hostage.
"Virus detected on your machine. Download Virus Defender immediately to remedy the problem." As if.
I find using Ad Blocker and turning off javascript helps a lot to limit these sort of attacks. But that's on the Winders 7 and Firefox side. Dunno if it's effective on Safari.
I use firefox, with Adblock. Firefox and I think Chrome will give you an option to kill notifications from a site it they pop up I think 3 times in a row.
I have Windows defender, but I ran my computer for years without an anti virus, since it really just takes common sense. If I wanted to try a program out, I would first install it on virtual machine. On my cousin's computer, an anti virus is a must because she has a child that wants to download any free games that he might find on a Google search.
But really, all it takes is computer common sense.
Force quit the App. Hold down shift while launching the App from the dock and the issue is resolved...
Do you even own a computer? Because it is obvious you do not work in the IT industry, most especially the network administrator / desktop administrator field...
As proof I present this ransomware attempt that once appeared on my iMac. smh
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rofl not sure wht I like better the xp theme, the country, city, united, states thing or dvd-ram
Just saying: There are people in their 60s and 70s now who invented that whole internet and email thing, and without them you wouldn't be posting here. And who is that computer named Savy that you are talking about?
Just within a quick 20 second google search, and these lock up the PC entirely, not just the browser.
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You obviously don't work with a lot of windows machines then. I have had to clean/repair dozens of infected windows machines which were infected with similar malware. Unfortunately the process was far more complicated than just closing a browser.