I want to warn you about what happened to me this evening
if you are planning on downloading anything mp3's etc tread anywhere with caution!
as I myself did this and was prone upon a stressful incident tonight
the Virus Locks you out of your PC
and comes up with a Page to the Police
saying you have committed a crime looking at obscene photo's of children
and below theres a £100 fee to unlock your pc
your pc just cannot communicate with what you want it to do
it keeps loading the page up but mess about and you can get into recovery settings
im prob gunna put pc back into factory state tomorrow cause
this virus has spooked the hell outta me I actually called the Police and told them about this aswell
so they actually know of it and they don't seem to happy either
so people this is a advice post really be careful
Posted by Bonovox
What site were you on??
Posted by Miss UK
A site with free downloadable mp3s
A few clicks and pop-ups occurred !
These scamsters need a boot upda a$$
Posted by tranced
Have you tried restoring windows to a previous date?
Posted by Miss UK
Yep I've done it it fixed it
But I don't trust logging into anything
Till I get advice tomorrow morning
I can't believe my antivirus failed on this one
It's a fully licenced product paid for to
It's a epic virus sheesh worst outhere
Watch ur clicks people
Posted by Bonovox
I never use anything like that anyway
Posted by luigithfc
yeah happened to me too.
it came up with some scottish police, then i researched and it was on bbc news.
all a scam.
lol it did scare the shite out of me too
but i was defintely not gonna pay no b*****d.
mind my french
Posted by Miss UK
Yep that's the one it has Scotland yard
On it it had email addresses to South Staffordshire
Police as well I actually rang them up trembling lol
It is one scary virus
I'm looking at spending cash
On a external hard drive to backup
All my content on so I can restore the
Pc back to factory I'm not logging in anywhere
On it in meantime I have my notebook
So that's a plus
Posted by masseur
I haven't had a virus since I got Stoned back when I had a PC-AT (a 286 processor with 1mb ram!).
Nortons protects well in my experience.
Posted by Miss UK
Norton is a really heavy program
It's also Currys and Pc World major shove of security
that they Try and make you have on pc purchases
You didn't hear that from me ex staff lol
Btw this is prob the worst virus
I have ever had I had others but
This one is the mother of all lol
You don't want it masseur
Posted by Bonovox
God I hated Norton especially 360 it slowed my pc to a crawl & mine is quad core I use AVG full purchased one it's excellent. Also Microsoft Security Essentials is good too.
Posted by masseur
its not been a "heavy program" for a couple of years now. They've made it quite light now and in fact only takes a few minutes to install compared to the old days.
Its certainly doesn't consume much CPU on my pc but when I check the monthly log, it has certainly protected me very well!
Posted by Bonovox
Oh ok well I have yet to try the newer ones. Norton is made by Currys or PC World is think. Or made for them as they always promoting it.
Posted by masseur
Norton products are made by Symantec, a huge US company.
Actually Symantec bought out Nortons some years ago. I used to use their Norton Utilities back in DOS and early windows days for defragmenting disks and other such things
Posted by Miss UK
Currys have some deal with Norton
It's why they sell you it when u purchase
A Pc you can also find trial versions of it on ur
Currys bought pc aswell
Posted by fatreg
Get a mac
Posted by hihihans
+1
Posted by ceaser2008
Which site did you surfed ??
I also feel that nortan slows down the pc unless you are packed with high config.
Posted by Miss UK
it would take me to long to get used to a mac tbh
as much as I love apple though
btw this Scam virus is a growing pain if u people Google metropolitan police scam ukash its struck alot of other users
anyway I decided to re-install windows regardless of not having a EX
Hard drive I lost alot of stuff and im not happy!
I hope these idiots are caught fast
stay away from anything that says free online people or this will happen to you