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SOPA Is Back! As a Ransomware Virus "I think this is important to know"
I had come across this & thought this may be important to share with many people out there. If doing anything related ? Protect your data. I personally use DeepFeeze so this kind of thing will not happen to my PC or anyone who runs it. Just a simple restart of a PC everything even 100s of viruses/maleware on a PC at one time, will not harm your PC at all when deepfreeze is activated. Personally i think DeepFreeze is better than antivirus protection when you need to protect data, like in this case below.
This although is not about deepfreeze something just very odd "Read & click on SOURCE" ! Anyways i though people should read this before becoming a victim . I mean this is Ridiculous if it happened to me i be pissed ! After historic Internet protests in January the SOPA anti-piracy bill was defeated. However, this week several reports have pointed to a rather unfortunate SOPA comeback. Not in Congress, but as a nasty cryptovirus that locks up people’s computers and accuses them of distributing copyright infringing files. Infected users can get their data back after a payment of $200 – at least, that’s what the virus makers promise. The Stop Online Piracy ACT (SOPA) was a major threat to the Internet. The bill introduced draconian censorship tools for the Government and copyright holders, that worried the public and many key Internet companies including Reddit, Google and Wikipedia. After months of protest, the bill was eventually killed off following the Internet Blackout earlier this year. SOURCE READ MORE
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This coupled with everything else they've been trying to do lately sounds like they're resorting to scare tactics. The virus would still have to be uploaded to your computer. What files are they hiding it in? I'm glad I keep a clone of my hard drive.
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Thanks for the info
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remember alf? he's back, in pog form
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Thanks, good to know that.
Almost the same thing is going around in german countries ("Bundespolizei virus"). I know one, that went to the police with his laptop. He even said that the virus 'started' during a youporn session.
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Seeiously?.. Seems so selfish and cruel. I don't use a PC, I only have an android phone but this is good info zombie.
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sandbox the browser, never had a virus for as long i can remember thx for the warning tho..looks nasty
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this sounds pretty much the same as the dorifel virus (v2?) thats out there..
never had a virus, but thanks for the warning
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Thanks for the heads up, downloading Deepfreeze now,
just my luck, first i cant download **** on psn, then i cant login to my account, NOW these SOPA loving fags are trying to destroy my computer... |
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Remember anything you save to your frozen drive will be wiped on restart ,so this is why i say to transfer downloaded data to external/or USB flash right away.. I would especially with this going around ..
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