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 -- -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "G-Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to g3-5-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
