The short story of how I managed to get a friend out of troubles in fours days of battle against one of the most dangerous Internet threats of the moment: Internet Security 2010, a malicious software that takes control of your PC pretending to defend it and then forces you to reveal your credit card data.
Sometime people get into troubles they can’t get out by themselves and it is always a pleasure to be able to help them when you have the specialized knowledge to do it. These are the times when you fully appreciate the value of what you know and give it back.
As I mentioned in a previous post, a friend of mine was attacked last week by a program that would not let use her computer any more unless she provided her credit card information that was then going to be transferred over the Internet to some fraud organization. Windows was completely locked and she was not able to even open a program or access any file.
No way or removing the offender with conventional means also because she had let sit on her computer for two or three days and in the situation had gotten worse every minute that went by after the first infection.
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