Fake Metropolitan Police warning - AKA The ukash virus

Toble

Toble

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I've educated my main repeat offender to store all his business documents on to a usb keyring, which I sold him. At only a small profit.
Plus the threat of Ubuntu has kept him clean for a while :)
 
Toble

Toble

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tek-monkey said:
Please tell me he backs up said USB device?
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Yes. As a password protected Zip on my server.

All my important data is stored on 2 USB drives, DropBox, my hosting server, my server at home, the server at my sister's house, and a weekly backup to CDROM. All heavily encrypted. I've lost important stuff before, so now i take no chances.

If you want to find my bank details and accounts, you'll need to work out where i've hidden the safe in the house.
 
db

db

#chaplife
wmrcomputers said:
MOst virus vendors target Windows OS's only. People have believed for years that Mac's and such like are un-virusable... not true. It's just that nobody can be bothered to write a virus for them in my opinion.
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agree entirely.. even in today's "apple happy" environment, they only have about 10% of the market share*.. if you were writing a virus/botnet script/malware/etc. would you target 1,814,000 computers, or 15,100,859?

that being said, mac os x is definitely not invulnerable, as wmr says:

Half a million Mac computers 'infected with malware'

i run my mac without antivirus, and i dare say if viruses et al do ever become a problem on os x, apple will address it as a core feature, so i'm not that worried..



* http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1744216
 
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Wolfenrook

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It's even worse when you are the "family/friend techy", and expected to do it all for free, including complete re-installation of OS (often without any media with said OS on it....), recovery of data (in some cases just a handfull of files in the exact same folder as the 134 virus infected porn files, in once particular case. lol).... Usually all because they used the copy of McCaffee their ISP provided for them....

8 Hours later, often including having to put their drive into your own PC to get the data they want to keep and disinfect it, you finally finish.... They get it home, uninstall the improved AV software you have put on and put that ISP provided McCaffee back on, then phone up and have a go that since you did it their PC has slowed right down.... Ignoring the fact that until they put said McCaffee back on it was actually 8 times faster....

Or there's the one where you are handed a literally DEAD PC and asked to fix it..... You know, a fix that requires a new motherboard, cpu, psu, hard drive, optical drive, PSU, memory.... I tend to just give my mum our oldest family PC every time we upgrade ours these days. That way I never get that "my pc is dead/stupidly slow" phone call.... Did I mention the fact my mum likes to fill her PC with BT provided software, like McCaffee, BTYahoo browser as was etc etc etc... lol Then there are my sister's boyfriends/lodgers/husband over the years with their hard drives full of porn files, with, you guessed it, McCaffee...... I literally detected 134 viruses/malware on one of her lodger's pc's once..... "You'll fix it for him wont you son..."

Sigh.

Ade
 
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#chaplife
Wolfenrook said:
It's even worse when you are the "family/friend techy", and expected to do it all for free...
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innit.. invest in one of these:

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and provide your whole family with one of these to print out and stick on the wall by their computer (click thumbnail for big version):

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