Ransomware

[Dinner]

I'm pretty sure what it is doing isn't legal. It's hard to track them down to bring charges though.

[Uncle Sparky]

Ah, precious youth! How fast time flies.

We had a lot of fun in Denmark, I think, or maybe it was Helsingborg, or Hamburg. My memories are not, hvad man nu siger, up to par.

Helsingor to Hillerod, then up to Alborg where we drank frozen Akvavit and ate pickled herring. Those were the days... What was the topic again?

[BlackCat]

Helsingor to Hillerod, then up to Alborg where we drank frozen Akvavit and ate pickled herring. Those were the days... What was the topic again?

Your hosts was apparently nice to you - akvavit is "better" at room temperature

[Felch]

I'm pretty sure what it is doing isn't legal. It's hard to track them down to bring charges though.

I'm sure it's a petty matter, and the people who do internet crime are more interested in big money fraud, terrorism, and kiddie porn. But it just seems like the sort of annoyance that affects so many people, that it would be worth making a priority. I'm more likely to be struck by lightning than killed by terrorists, and I was never a cute enough kid to star in porn, so the government isn't really protecting me on the internet. They're protecting the few, and leaving the many to fix their friend's damn computers whenever they break.

Buy someting and get it fixed in an unauthorised shop - goodbye guarantee.

I don't know about that. If you mean car warranties, it makes a lot of sense to me that the guarantee would expire if a non-authorized mechanic worked on it. It's a liability for them to offer the warranty, and they can't just take on unlimited liabilities for problems that may be caused by jackasses fiddling with things. If I were selling cars, and offered a warranty, I would consider it void if anybody I didn't trust poked their noses in it.

[Provost Harrison]

Helsingor to Hillerod, then up to Alborg where we drank frozen Akvavit and ate pickled herring. Those were the days... What was the topic again?

Sounds like Lord of the Rings

[notyoueither]

Felch, check your PMs.

[SlowwHand]

I just can't get over the fact that this is legal. Why isn't there more of an outcry about this sort of corporate behavior?

Remember Sony?

[N35t0r]

and leaving the many to fix their friend's damn computers whenever they break.

The proper american thig to do would be to have him pay an expert for it.

Why do you hate America?

[Felch]

You're right, "If you're good at something, never do it for free."

[Aeson]

It probably is illegal, just no one who's clicked on it so far has wanted to go to court to explain how they were high and/or furiously wanking off to LOTR fanfic when they accidently clicked "yes, infect my computer with your virus"...

[Zoetstofzoetje]

i haven't used a permanent virusscanner on my main computer for over five years. too annoying because of the false positives. whenever i worry that i might have caught something, i do an online scan.

if you have no clue what you're doing however, no amount of computer security will save your sorry behind.

[Solomwi]

I got something similar, if not the same one, not too long ago (redirect from a google results link to an imdb page, AFAICT). Try Malwarebytes if you're still looking for a fix. You'll need to be in safe mode to get it on the machine and run it, of course.

[Kitschum]

Helsingor to Hillerod, then up to Alborg where we drank frozen Akvavit and ate pickled herring. Those were the days... What was the topic again?

It's like poetry. I'm at the verge of crying here.

[BlackCat]

Sip some Rød Ålborg and you'll be right back

[Kitschum]

That might compel me to try and speak Danish to random people again and I want to avoid that. One of these days someone will think I'm a Danish spy and send me to Swedish Guantanamo (Gotland).