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Old 09-21-2013, 09:47 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by putty View Post
suggesting that his PC was identified as having large amounts of child pornography on his computer and the FBI was going to come to arrest him and confiscate all of his computer hardware...but this can all go away with a simple payment of approx. $300 to some unknown company...Needless to say he was petrified and ready to throw money at this company to clean it up!
That one just made the computer difficult to use but did not destroy files - this one if a more destructive variant of the same.

Best solution on this is to have good backups of all your files so you can wipe your hard drive and start clean if infected.

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