It could have been Putin's boys making sure the Avengers stay out of the whole Ukraine and Crimea debacle.

Anyone tried that?
 

That bit about F8 and restore previous start point. Has anyone done that with this problem?

Here, twice. I was watching live stream Champions League Football (Soccer) over the internet to work around pay tv, of course.

Happened to me before, while on a tv website (I watch every CSI episode 24 hours after they premiere in the US :D , on public tv here they are "a few" seasons behind).
No, my hands do not show excessive hair growth :O:

Like posted previously, Safe Mode and Malwarebytes will do the trick. Go out and have a pint (or two) while Malwarebytes works for you. You've earned it:Kaleun_Cheers:

Steed isn't fooling anyone...
He was going Japanese and got himself a cyber STD.:haha:

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No, he isn't, he wanted a new PC and this is just the excuse he needed. :03:

I'll bet the ghost of Steve Jobs is behind it: "Won't buy a Mac? We'll see about that..." ...

Using a PC in the libraray is no guarantee you won't get that particular malware. About a year ago, I was in a public library in my area when a patron using a PC went up to the service desk in a bit of a fluster; it seems she got that "We're the government and we've locked your PC" screen. So, even with all the IT safeguards available to the city (Los Angeles), the malware got through...

As far as suspect sites, in that case I don't think it applies. The lady patron was of an advanced age (anyone older than me is of an "advanced age" and there are fewer every year) and I really doubt she was indulging in a salacious viewing of something like, say, "Old Geezers Gone Wild"...

Then, again, maybe Grannies "got it going on"...


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Sadly some people do end up falling for this scam.

I've had a couple of these types, one so nasty that it required a reinstall of the OS. Nothing would shift it. I lost nothing because I back up important files. OK if I lost my latest SH campaign it is no real disaster but personal stuff like photos and documents that I'd be gutted to lose are all stashed away on an external HDD.

I tend to view really annoying viruses as a prompt to do a reinstall these days, so the people that are out to mess me up are actually doing me a favour. Otherwise I'd probably not get round to it.

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Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch (Post 2183104) No, he isn't, he wanted a new PC and this is just the excuse he needed.

Yep just a bit ahead but what the heck.

At the library again folks, be picking the new PC latter today so a busy day ahead. Back to the scammer git, there shut screen only had in yellow saying "GOT YA YOUR LOCKED OUT PAY UP". Followed by how to set up an account of payment and if I don't pay up they will clean my bank account out from the details they stole off my former PC.

What details I ask? SH3/SH4 a few word docs they don't contain anything they could use. I keep most of my stuff on memory sticks so they lose out again. :haha:

Not bad when you think about it I have been on the Internet since around mid 1990's and this is the first big hit I ever had.

LOL :)

I downloaded 'malwarebytes' last night and let it run a deep scan on the two drives that downloads go to......Results? 70 Potentially Unwanted Programs.
Quarantined all of them. Bought the program this morning. $41.14/ lifetime subscription for one computer.
I will use the free version on the laptop.

Money well spent...I generally use the 'free' versions :)

My theory is that IF the free version does what they say it will, why not pay (if the price is reasonable) for it and get some added benefits (like the backup disk). So I did.

I'M BACK BABY

This is my first post on my new PC. :D

Man I have been in the bronze age with my old XP that has now gone to the dump. Hello Windows 8.1 man this is going to take a few days to know right got to crack on and get the important stuff up and running, catch you latter.