People have two weeks to protect themselves from a "powerful computer attack", the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) has warned.
Read more:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27668260
Wake me up in the morning before it hits. I know a 100% successful block, but I need to be awake to activate it... Oh, I'll charge £100 a go for anyone wanting me to implement it. At a lesser fee of £50 I can do it over the phone, but they need to be standing next to the plug socket while I give them instructions... ;)
haha the advice website in that post doesn't work :laugh:
http://www.getsafeonline.org/nca/
An Error Was Encountered
Site Error: Unable to Load Site Preferences; No Preferences Found
Or sometimes you get
The service is unavailable.
It's a government department. What did you expect? ;D
Two weeks to buy an Apple Mac :evil:
Oh, of course! This is all a big set up by Apple to increase sales! ;D
Well, they've got one of them! Bloody Russians! ;D
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27668260
I guess some of these utilities might be useful:
http://support.kaspersky.com/viruses/utility#
Quote from: Simon on Jun 02, 2014, 20:52:47
Well, they've got one of them! Bloody Russians! ;D
Aren't Kaspersky Russian? :whistle:
Indeed! :laugh:
Quote from: Simon on Jun 02, 2014, 19:33:18
It's a government department. What did you expect? ;D
In all honesty, half those links are wrong (literally the wrong sites linked). The write up looks more like a phishing attack than anything I'm worried will come over...
Chap from work has just got this on one of his pc's at home, it came as an attachment from his sons estate agent.
I used to only get 1 or 2 emails a week that was infected, but now I get around 10 a day and its getting more and more by the month.
All is well here, I had a phone call off a man who works for Windows IT and he said he would check my Windows computer as I had a problem. Nice man and I think he phoned one of my customers earlier today and said the same thing to her. That is the first time they have rung me so I asked what operating system I had and he said Windows so I told him I had a Apple Mac and hung up. :angel:
A friend of mine was caught for £200 by these thieves and then they had the cheek to try it on again just a few days later.
The head of a government-funded cyber-security advice website apologises and says he is "not sleeping" after the site collapsed under heavy traffic.
Read more:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27695170
:shake: Is this worse than the Police one that we had a while back? I know my son got rid of that one from a couple of computers, what makes this one different?
Perhaps the fact that it's very difficult to tell if you've got it, makes it more dangerous.
Oh :laugh: well I've done various scans and it say's I'm clean :whistle:
But what about your PC? :o
;D
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