Virus holds your data ransom - 200,000 to 250,000 computers had been infected in UK!

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Not as despicable as some variants that actually put child pornography on your computer, then threaten to contact the police if you don't pay the ransom.

LOL! Never heard of those. Care to give names?

Reply 41

Mad Vlad

Original post by Juichiro

Lol at your sexual terms, Mod. I thought Mods were supossed to be puritanical. :biggrin:

Anyway, as along as she does not keep a local folder keeping things online should be fine, I think.

Me? Puritanical? HA! :laugh:

I'm as pure and innocent as the driven coal.

Reply 42

Mad Vlad

Original post by Juichiro

LOL! Never heard of those. Care to give names?

Reveton is a classic example of this, though I'm not sure this variant actually does the downloading.

Reply 43

finnthehuman

Original post by Mad Vlad

A 50kB .jpg might have seemed big back when we measured modem connection speeds in baud, but not these days. It only takes 1 indecent image for you to be convicted.

But I.T teams could easily know that it was a virus.

Reply 44

Iqbal007

Original post by simon_g

Macs are PC- for about a decade now they use Intel processors (with EFI instead of BIOS)

Í am símply usíng terms whích people descríbe an Apple system from other systems....people usually call everythíng else PC.

Reply 45

ih094

Original post by Padwas

thank god I'm on mac

sarcasm ftw

Reply 46

Mad Vlad

Original post by finnthehuman

But I.T teams could easily know that it was a virus.

Depends on how thorough the investigator was.

Reply 47

Tai Ga

Who the hell is stupid enough to click on a spam email AND then proceed to click on the link given or the attachment? :lolwut:

Are people so devoid of common sense?

Reply 48

finnthehuman

Original post by Mad Vlad

Depends on how thorough the investigator was.

+ lawyers.

Reply 49

Mad Vlad

Original post by Tai Ga

Who the hell is stupid enough to click on a spam email AND then proceed to click on the link given or the attachment? :lolwut:

Are people so devoid of common sense?

Yes.

Original post by finnthehuman

+ lawyers.

Quite.

Reply 50

Snagprophet

And how are these viruses put on computers then? You've got to open something surely. So it's not really anything to worry about as long as you don't open files emailed to you who you've never heard of and will most likely be detected by your email client as spam/junk. It's pretty much a non-issue really, it's not as if I will get one without actually opening one.

I couldn't give a **** whether Macs are safer, they have a smaller market share. Therefore someone writing a virus is going hardly going to target a small group when Windows holds the most. Saying 'I use a Mac' is retarded because if we all used Macs then there'd be more viruses dedicated to them.