Police ransomware

ash_scotland88

ash_scotland88

ash_scotland88

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I admit I needed some releif last night, visited a website I used before and got the police ransomware virus.
Weird thing is it only affected firefox, the browser I was using at the time.
I tried some of the quick removal ways listed in guides last night which didn't want to remove it. Everytime it appeared to have done, load up FF and it was the scammers web page loaded up and task manager to quit FF.

I was going to leave it till this morning to investigate further and try other methods. I started off running a full malwarebytes scan this morning, this time it didn't find anything. Opened FF just to test it and it gave me the "oops there's been an issue retreiving closed tabs" page.

I'm now running a full McAfee scan (currently at 50%) that's not showing anything either.

Is it safe to presume this is now gone?
Reading removal guides it appears the virus should have "locked" me out of my computer fully, not just when I load up FF.

Any other programmes I can run to check things?
 
You should

1: Not use McAfee, obviously it doesn't work.
2: If you install Java, it's up to you to keep it up to date.
3: Keep your Browser up to date.
4: Too much information?

The solution is simple, grab the backups of files and software you will have no doubt made recently and fresh install. I wouldn't want lingering suspicions on whether such a thing still remained.
 
Yeah...I never make backups, never seem to get around to it =/

I have copies of photo's and other important things but never had any backups. I used to prefer kapersky, but it was what I was given.
 
I removed something similar by logging into my 2nd o/s (dual boot) and deleting the user profile.

Now I use a standard account as default and a second login as admin to reduce what's run and a second account to fix any problems with the other.

Also don't ignore or blindly accept pop up boxes :o

MW
 
mrbell1984 said:
Never assume. Get backed up and formatted big boy. :D
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Isn't that a bit OTT for what looks like a browser hijack and not a total OS hijack.

It sounds more like the previous browsing session being restored either by the hijack, by the way the browser was being closed (force closing it through task manager might cause the previous session to be stored) or the OP (or the hijack) has show my windows and tabs from the last time selected in the when firefox starts section of startup (in the general tab in options) and the session became irretrievable stopping the hijack (I can't be 100% sure about this, but it's the only way I can think that this has happened).
 
demonix said:
Isn't that a bit OTT for what looks like a browser hijack and not a total OS hijack.

It sounds more like the previous browsing session being restored either by the hijack, by the way the browser was being closed (force closing it through task manager might cause the previous session to be stored) or the OP (or the hijack) has show my windows and tabs from the last time selected in the when firefox starts section of startup (in the general tab in options) and the session became irretrievable stopping the hijack (I can't be 100% sure about this, but it's the only way I can think that this has happened).
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Yeah firefox loads reloads previous pages if force closed or crashes.

Everything is scanning fine. Used FF and it's too ok.
 
ash_scotland88 said:
Yeah...I never make backups, never seem to get around to it =/
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You're playing the risky game right there. Always have backups!
 
my brother runs into this police warning thing every six months or so, brings his pc around swears blind that it just happened randomly.
 
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