I was surfing the web last week and my browser locked up and this popup 
appeared. These clowns wanted $300.

Earlier that day I had seen a Tekzilla that mentioned something about 
Ransomware. According to what Tekzilla described this is where a program 
gets installed on your machine where everything gets password encrypted and 
the perpetrators won't unencrypt your system without you forking over $300.

I went to force quit and quit TenFourFox. Then I shut down my machine and 
unplugged my router from the cable modem. I then powered up my machine and 
backed up my document folder and then I reconnected to my cable modem and 
changed some passwords.

I really haven't noticed anything unusual other than I was playing Master 
of Orion under system 9 and and somehow the mouse button got stuck wide 
open. My system still doesn't like Flash much and Javascript seems to make 
it wheeze.

I thought any virus or trojan wouldn't be able to deal with a DA G4 as they 
are elderly and nearly extinct. I never considered there would be any 
viable threat to a machine like this.

I used to run Norton Antivirus a long time ago, I think it was on my 
SuperMac S900. I don't think I've ever run any antivirus on this G4. Is 
there antivirus available for for a PowerPC nowadays?

Is this a real threat?

Mark Murphy

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