Tuesday, July 23, 2013

New Malware Ransomware


You are clicking on research hits in Google/Bing etc and suddenly a screen that you can.t dismiss comes up saying it's the FBI. Seems that you owe them 300.00 for going to a WEB site that has illegal content on it. If you force quit Safari it will just reload the next time you launch so:
follow this link to find out what hackers/Cyber-criminals are trying to extort money from Mac users
http://blog.malwarebytes.org/intelligen ... s-x-users/

WARNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is a con job and it has not infected your computer but has a script set up to force you to hit the leave this page button 150 time in order to get out.
Do not give these guys your credit card numbers follow the direction in the link to get out.

Starting up with the shift key down will allow you to reset your Safari prefs. Sometimes Apples updates are not your friend. 

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