virus

[skywash]

afternoon peeps.. need a bit of help i was looking for a tune on youtube earlier and my lappy screen went blank then a page came up saying i was trying to download music without authority blah blah send ?100 within 72 hrs or get a court summons.. i cant get off the page to try and clean lappy or anything so had to use the daughters lappy to get on dk any advice cheers

[Carew6]

Sounds similar to this, have a read...

http://www.digital-kaos.co.uk/forums/f36/cheshire-police-virus-scam-i-m-stumped-344380/

[Reapers]

combofix might sort it for you heard a few peeps are getting it and this solved it.

Combofix

[siewcu]

I've had similar problem few months ago. Run PC in safe mode, then win+r and type msconfig. Enter, and go on run(?) tab - and find some weird names that you cannot recognize(if you do, uncheck, apply, ok and reboot pc), or post list here, someone should find it

[cactikid]

are people running pcs without anti virus to pick them up?

[Elric]

d/load malware bytes and scan it with that in safe mode

[siewcu]

are people running pcs without anti virus to pick them up?

yep, but also theres a lot of creepy antivirus software...