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NSA FBI warning Your browser had been locked [message #271536] Sun, 26 October 2014 21:39 Go to next message
smac0031 is currently offline  smac0031
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Hello,

Somehow I got redirected to some website with this header, I think its
ransomware.

As soon as it opened I went to force quit and quit TenFourFox 31.2.0 and
then shut down my DA G4.

A couple of hours later I restarted everything and launched Ten4 and this
site came up immediately. I opened another tab and
closed the "NSA FBI" thing that claims to monitoring all of my illegal
activities whatever those might be.

I don't thing this is much of a threat unless you click on this thing. I
didn't have much trouble bypassing it.

I was wondering if anyone has any experience with this garbage or knows
anything about it. What is it supposed to be
able to do.

Mark Murphy

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Re: NSA FBI warning Your browser had been locked [message #271537 is a reply to message #271536] Sun, 26 October 2014 21:57 Go to previous messageGo to next message
W.Adrian D'Alessio is currently offline  W.Adrian D'Alessio
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probably just sell you something since you do not mention paying out
anything.


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On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 9:39 PM, smac0031 <m.smurph001@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Somehow I got redirected to some website with this header, I think its
> ransomware.
>
> As soon as it opened I went to force quit and quit TenFourFox 31.2.0 and
> then shut down my DA G4.
>
> A couple of hours later I restarted everything and launched Ten4 and this
> site came up immediately. I opened another tab and
> closed the "NSA FBI" thing that claims to monitoring all of my illegal
> activities whatever those might be.
>
> I don't thing this is much of a threat unless you click on this thing. I
> didn't have much trouble bypassing it.
>
> I was wondering if anyone has any experience with this garbage or knows
> anything about it. What is it supposed to be
> able to do.
>
> Mark Murphy
>
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Re: NSA FBI warning Your browser had been locked [message #271538 is a reply to message #271536] Sun, 26 October 2014 23:02 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Bruce Johnson is currently offline  Bruce Johnson
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On Oct 26, 2014, at 6:39 PM, smac0031 <m.smurph001@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Somehow I got redirected to some website with this header, I think its ransomware.
>
> As soon as it opened I went to force quit and quit TenFourFox 31.2.0 and then shut down my DA G4.
>
> A couple of hours later I restarted everything and launched Ten4 and this site came up immediately. I opened another tab and
> closed the "NSA FBI" thing that claims to monitoring all of my illegal activities whatever those might be.

This is probably what you've run into:

<http://malwaretips.com/blogs/fbi-mac-os-x-virus/>

Clearing your browser cache and history should get rid of it.


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"Wherever you go, there you are." B. Banzai, PhD

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Re: NSA FBI warning Your browser had been locked [message #271544 is a reply to message #271536] Sun, 26 October 2014 23:17 Go to previous message
g3-5-list is currently offline  g3-5-list
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On Oct 26, 2014, at 6:39 PM, smac0031 wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Somehow I got redirected to some website with this header, I think its ransomware.
>

In Safari just force quit the browser. and relaunch


John Carmonne
Yorba Linda CA
92886 USA
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