Got a very crazy virus on my laptop. Basically it is ransomware. it wants me to give $300 over to unlock my computer within 48 hours (and somehow has a countdown timer of 1 hour. What's even worse is that it accuses you of watching illegal things like file sharing, kid porn and all sorts of other bad crap. It also tries to take a picture of you with your webcam and says you might have criminal charges pressed against you, but that doesn't make sense at all. If you're watching that kind of illegal stuff, they don't just let you go for $300. I'm pretty sure that's a felony.
http://malwaretips.com/blogs/ice-cyber-crime-center-removal/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5y2GICz7X0To unlock your computer and to avoid other legal consequences you are obligated to pay a release fee of $300 USD.
An attempt to unlock this computer by yourself will lead to the full formatting of the operating system. All the files, videos, photos, documents on your computer will be deleted.
It's trying to ransom my laptop back to me.
Weirdest thing, this happened right when I was playing Lord of the Rings Online (LOTRO) and just when I got to level 65. I've been trying to get there for a couple years so it was kind of a huge thing for me. The whole virus thing DID NOT lock out my game of LOTRO, so I just kept right on playing for a little bit! Had no idea this had happened until I alt tabbed out to look up something on the game's LOTRO site and I see that messed up screen. It did not block the game of LOTRO I was playing....
It's 5 PM on a Friday so it isn't like I can take it anywhere to get it fixed either, and when I do take it somewhere to get it fixed, whoever works on this thing is gonna see that screen (which is intentionally designed to embarrass/ransom money out of you). WTF?
I can ctrl alt delete to shut it down and stuff, but that's about all. It's difficult to start it up in safe mode even, by which i mean, I haven't gotten it to do that yet.
That'll teach me to reach level 65.