POLICE WARNING VIRUS

mattuk said:
All you have to do is immediately shut down your PC.
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Not even. Just simply unplug your modem or ethernet or whatever for a few minutes and you should be fine.

I am starting to think it's legit though. I work in a hardware store and some of my guy coworkers were talking about some isps monitor your search history and shit. Fucked up. The world is becoming more PC day by day.
 
danuweb said:
Not even. Just simply unplug your modem or ethernet or whatever for a few minutes and you should be fine.

I am starting to think it's legit though. I work in a hardware store and some of my guy coworkers were talking about some isps monitor your search history and shit. Fucked up. The world is becoming more PC day by day.
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No, they aren't legit: ransomware is a good term. More recent ones can be more dangerous, as some of them begin encrypting your hard drive before they announce their presence. Then you have real trouble if you can't restore from backups, and don't want to pay the ransom.

The very best defense is good antivirus software, kept up to date, and run all the time. My PC gets attacked regularly, but the attacks are stopped. Norton Internet Security Suite with anti-virus, firewall, and web protection seems to do OK for me.
 
shivas said:
Never got this. Is it safer to browse ctd on a anonymous server?
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Even though this question was posted some time ago, it is still good to answer:

By anonymous server, I presume you mean accessing CDG via VPN tunnel or other encrypted channel.

That won't help. The attacks come from compromised servers being accessed by links. Because you clicked the link, you have explicitly given the malware permission to access your PC through the encrypted tunnel.

One way this can happen is by links from CDG to image servers, or any other server containing content. If you click a link from CDG to another web page, and click any link there, all bets are off.

My PC has never been attacked by anything hosted directly on CDG. Not once; and I watch carefully for that kind of thing.
 
badtom said:
Even though this question was posted some time ago, it is still good to answer:

By anonymous server, I presume you mean accessing CDG via VPN tunnel or other encrypted channel.

That won't help. The attacks come from compromised servers being accessed by links. Because you clicked the link, you have explicitly given the malware permission to access your PC through the encrypted tunnel.

One way this can happen is by links from CDG to image servers, or any other server containing content. If you click a link from CDG to another web page, and click any link there, all bets are off.

My PC has never been attacked by anything hosted directly on CDG. Not once; and I watch carefully for that kind of thing.
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The only ones I recieved all my browsers and anything that uses internet servers on my pc like a video game or something wont work and instead a window and a program will pop up and say "FBI is monitoring this system and you have been searching forbidden terms Pornography, Illegal acts. "

And it will sometimes give me an option to pay using a prepaid credit card that I have to buy at a convenience store or it will just say "This pc is being monitored".

I'm starting to think that it can be real and some are fake just you never know. I just turn my modem off whenever I get those like every few months or so then they go away. I also noticed it was a certain site that triggered it so I stopped visiting there and the rest is history.
 
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