Locked up Computer

[jriver309]

Has anyone had their computer locked and the screen comes up saying it will be unlocked if you pay a fee thru money pak.

[kenkell1]

Has anyone had their computer locked and the screen comes up saying it will be unlocked if you pay a fee thru money pak.

you have a virus. Time to Nuke and pave your hard drive.

[whoknows]

And to add to kenkell's remark, after you're done formatting your hard drive slip out and buy a good antivirus. good luck

[Nostradamus]

might be ways around it and it could also mean a new computer as well... depends where the thing has infected stuff. Some of them go right to the BIOS in which case unless you are lucky enough to be able to flash the bios and get rid of it that way you are looking at a new motherboard

[Feathers]

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[Terryl]

On situations like this, I remove the infected hard drive and do an external AV/Malware/Spyware sweep on it.

All you need is an IDE/SATA to USB interface (Google for one, they are cheap) and a second PC or laptop to do the sweep with, I use Avast on a laptop and the external drive can then be swept in it's entirety, this keeps you from loosing all the good data that may be stored on that drive if you re-format it.

Some of the newer PC's and laptops don't come with the OS recovery software unless you order it, or made a recovery disk when it was new, you also may not have recovery software for programs you have downloaded.

So turning it into an external USB drive may save all your stuff and get rid of that pesky junk.

[iq180]

Has anyone had their computer locked and the screen comes up saying it will be unlocked if you pay a fee thru money pak.
You need to boot it up in safe mode with networking then go online and download Malwarebytes, then do a full scan.

[steven charles]

friend not sure what kind of computer you have but on my window xp laptop when that happen to me a few times I restore it to an earlyier time that it was working and that fix it,hope it helps friend.....

[Nanochickin]

Had that on mine before, Its the UKash/Randsom virus, dependent on how old the virus is sometimes Malwarebytes misses it

I used the Kaspersky AV rescue disk and it got rid of it in about an hour, it also gets rid of any other nasties on your PC. It will put your PC back to where it was before you got the virus.

http://rescuedisk.kaspersky-labs.com/rescuedisk/updatable/kav_rescue_10.iso

Download the ISO on another PC and then using something like ISO burner, Toast or Imageburn make the rescue disk. Boot the PC from the disk and then leave it to do its thing. It takes about an hour but it does get rid of it.

This may also help.

http://blog.spamfighter.com/general/how-to-remove-ukash-virus-guide.html

And thats why i use Linux :toot:

Nano