PC take overs!!!!!!

[Skunkman1]

Mods move this to cafe if you want, I just put it here since most people read here first.



Twice now in three months I have had my PC hi-jacked by a scammer that does a complete take over of all the programs!
It then gives you a popup that says "WARNING You computer has been corrupted and the only way that you can clean it up is by sending us money! Now ain't that just Dandy!!!! Send them money to clean up a program that they put on your PC! Something should be done about these Bastages!!!! Thank heaven I have a self taught friend that knows how to hack in on the hackers and clean this junk up for me!




Thanks for letting me vent!

[Husker Poyer]

It's easy to take care of. When you first get those messages just do a system restore to a previous restore point and it will clear it up. No sending any money to anyone.

[BulletForMyHuskers]

Easy. Buy a Mac. They're 100x better than PC's. Or, do what Poyer said and do a system restore. Download Microsoft Essentials(free anti-virus). Or you can go into task manager and see which .EXE process is causing this issue and closing it. Many options, but the easiest one is to buy a Mac.

[Nishioka]

Easy. Buy a Mac. They're 100x better than PC's. Or, do what Poyer said and do a system restore. Download Microsoft Essentials(free anti-virus). Or you can go into task manager and see which .EXE process is causing this issue and closing it. Many options, but the easiest one is to buy a Mac.

That might be true, but that won't stop you from being vulnerable to malware. You still need to be vigilant about what you click yes on, regardless of what OS you're running.

[huskrthill]

Easy. Buy a Mac. They're 100x better than PC's. Or, do what Poyer said and do a system restore. Download Microsoft Essentials(free anti-virus). Or you can go into task manager and see which .EXE process is causing this issue and closing it. Many options, but the easiest one is to buy a Mac.

Mac. Ha.

The reason Macs don't run into malware issues isn't because they are better - it's because no one uses them. Why would someone bother writing malicious code that will only affect about 6-7% of computers?

I will say this... Apple fanboys are fiercely loyal.

[huskrthill]

That might be true, but that won't stop you from being vulnerable to malware. You still need to be vigilant about what you click yes on, regardless of what OS you're running.

Very true. People unknowingly click on things that might look legit, only to end up with bad stuff on their machines.

[RedPhoenix]

Macs are infinitely better machines.

[huskrthill]

Macs are infinitely better machines.

And yet they haven't been able to come close to PCs in market share. I wonder why.

[RedPhoenix]

And yet they haven't been able to come close to PCs in market share. I wonder why.

Same reason Rolls Royce hasn't overtaken Ford in market share.

[Nishioka]

I will say this... Apple fanboys are fiercely loyal.

I keep a PC on my desktop (just built in December, it's a screamer) and roll with an iPhone and iPad. I'll give you my iDevices when you pry them from my cold, dead hands!

[FLA4NEB]

Mac. Ha.

The reason Macs don't run into malware issues isn't because they are better - it's because no one uses them. Why would someone bother writing malicious code that will only affect about 6-7% of computers?

I will say this... Apple fanboys are fiercely loyal.

(I run my vast empire on Apple products. For us they are better.)

There are malware written for OS X but they never get very far because security is baked into the OS a lot better than Windows. I am not saying that it can't be done but you have to do a lot of stupid stuff to get your Mac infected. There was a new malware discovered last month with in a week Apple had a patch that defeated it...even though it was really really hard to get infected by it.

OS X is moving in the direction of iOS which means that probably in the next version each program will be running in its own sandbox (really from a security stand point they are kind of now doing that).

[FLA4NEB]

PC, Mac, etc don't matter. The data is the platform that matters...

[huskrthill]

Same reason Rolls Royce hasn't overtaken Ford in market share.

Overpriced and not worth it?

[RedBlack&Blue]

That might be true, but that won't stop you from being vulnerable to malware. You still need to be vigilant about what you click yes on, regardless of what OS you're running.

Not true for me. Been running a Mac since 2007 -- ZERO malware. And I work in Internet Marketing, so I'm exposed quite a bit.

[RedPhoenix]

Overpriced and not worth it?

Marketed and priced to those who can see the value and afford to pay for it. Ford's do a wonderful job for the commoners. When you get to a Mac, you're in a whole different league!

[FLA4NEB]

Not true for me. Been running a Mac since 2007 -- ZERO malware. And I work in Internet Marketing, so I'm exposed quite a bit.

What kind of internet marking are you doing that you are siting around exposed...sorry different type of malware.

[RedPhoenix]

What kind of internet marking are you doing that you are siting around exposed...sorry different type of malware.

RBB = Founder of Chat Roulette!!

[FLA4NEB]

Overpriced and not worth it?

For what I get for the money I haven't found that to be true. I have found that my cost of ownership is much lower with Mac.

(true story - last week I had a client praise our work and how quickly we got it assemble for them. A few minutes later she launched into how she hates Apple and Macs and how they never work right and you can't do real work on them. After she was done and looking for my agreement I just said "we only use Macs at our office"...the I gave her my pitch that platform doesn't matter data and access to data does. I don't care what you use as long as you can get the work done and I don't have to support you.)

[MilesBFree]

You need to frequent a better class of porn sites. By better, I mean worse. By worse I mean less worse.

The sad thing is, the bastages can make a pop-up window that displays a seemingly innocuous message that offers Yes and No responses. However, they could have written the code so no matter which one you click on, kit still does the same thing which is to install malware. The question and your answer do not need to have anything to do with the action a click takes - that is up to the programmer.

It is better to just click the X to close the window instead of clicking on anything in the dialogue box.

[BulletForMyHuskers]

Mac. Ha.

The reason Macs don't run into malware issues isn't because they are better - it's because no one uses them. Why would someone bother writing malicious code that will only affect about 6-7% of computers?

I will say this... Apple fanboys are fiercely loyal.

Absolutely there's no reason to write malware for Macs since it won't target as much as PC's do. That doesn't mean that PC's are better, it just means that Macs are a better quality machine and with better quality comes more price. Compare the amount of people who can afford to spend 300-400 bucks on a PC vs. spending 1000+ for a mac. Of course there are going to be many more PC users.

I've owned a mac for 5 years now and I've honestly had zero problems on it and it runs great. I've been through multiple PC's b/c they ******** out after 2-3 years and with the god-awful OS they call Vista, it wasn't even worth having a PC during those years. Windows 7 is much better than Vista, but it's still not close of a comparison if price was thrown out.

For the record, I also own a desktop PC for those times certain programs/software aren't made for the superior computer.