Scam

[emperor76]

Hi all, today I was confronted by a message on my browser, it was posing as Cheshire police, it said my my browser has been locked because I'm accused of illegal activity and I have to pay £100 before the start a legal case and for them to unblock my browser, obviously this was a scam, but it did seem to have my browser locked, so I went through my programs and deleted anything I didn't like the look of and restarted the system, the browser was no longer locked, but I'm still not confident I'm not infected, I was on here before with a security issue and someone pointed me to a clean up tool box sticky on here, would you suggest that as being the best method of dealing with this? I'm currently running a full Avast system scan

 

[BikerEcho]

Yeah full scan with your chosen AV,
Then use an anti spyware software followed by locating open ports and close them

 

[BK_123]

Also give the http://www.computerforums.org/forums/cyber-safety-computer-security/pc-cleanup-toolbox-219988.html a bash..

 

[robert key]

I think avg is reliable enough just run a full scan it will detect if anything is suspicious

 

[iPwn]

I wrote an entire guide on how to get rid of these:

http://www.computerforums.org/forum...er-software/how-clean-infected-pc-223695.html

 

[robert key]

Nice guide i checked it out good work ipwn! you seem to know a lot about computers

 

[iPwn]

Thanks!

Although, none of my screenshots are showing in the thread I'll have to get that fixed.

 

[BikerEcho]

I see the screenshots fine.
Nice guide btw.

 

[iPwn]

Yea there were some changes to how album images are linked so I had to go through and replace them.

Thanks!

 

[robert key]

Yaa i also don't see the screen shots but its still helpful!