57Gregy
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Risky Business
Given the surprising lack of posts since last night, I'm assuming everyone was hit with this risk 55 thing?
Anyone know what I'm referring to? Pop-up thingy saying the server was illegal and wanting you to call an 800 number, supposedly a Microsoft number. Pop-up wouldn't close, had to use task manager or restart the computer to get it off, then I had no internet.
Was on IE, on Chrome, now.
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Re: Risky Business
2017/10/07 14:35:58
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BobF
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Re: Risky Business
2017/10/07 14:38:48
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Re: Risky Business
2017/10/07 14:52:02
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I'm 64, well beyond 55. And I had a vasectomy so I'm risk free too.
TMI?
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Re: Risky Business
2017/10/07 17:41:18
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Re: Risky Business
2017/10/07 19:10:58
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I've had a few clients get this and one actually fell for it. Fortunately, before he gave away everything, he panicked and pulled EVERY plug out of the back of his computer! LOL. Mouse, keyboard, video, power and, finally, the network cable. He said it sounded like Russians in a boiler room (probably was). When I was resolving the issue, I could see a remote connection that kept attempting to reconnect to his PC. They even asked him if he had done any online purchasing (since credit card information can be kept on the PC).
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Re: Risky Business
2017/10/07 20:26:09
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☄ Helpfulby craigb 2017/10/07 22:49:25
I think that the level of posting activity here is more to do with that level being directly proportional to the amount of absolute bollocks being posted divided by the square root of needless meddling. This somehow results in the needless meddling obtaining a value higher than that of the absolute bollocks.
Or something like that.
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bapu
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Re: Risky Business
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Re: Risky Business
2017/10/07 21:51:27
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I meddaled in backstroke today. It was a happy ending.
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Re: Risky Business
2017/10/07 23:26:45
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“Beer is proof God loves us and wants us to be happy” is attributed to Benjamin Franklin perhaps in error, but the thought remains a worthy sentiment nonetheless. 
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Re: Risky Business
2017/10/08 04:21:08
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Beepster
???
Lead singer of the praise band at the first church of appliantology?
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Re: Risky Business
2017/10/08 04:51:50
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☄ Helpfulby Beepster 2017/10/08 05:03:13
I've always wondered how many takes he had where he just ate the floor before they got the one that worked...
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Beepster
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Re: Risky Business
2017/10/08 05:06:51
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57Gregy
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Re: Risky Business
2017/10/08 14:08:28
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So, this morning I clicked the MS Edge button and it took me to what looked like a Microsoft Support site. Clicking the address in the bar showed it was the risk page and a "dangerous website" message popped up. No unclosable pop-ups, though, and I am able to browse normally.
The web site is risk dash 55 dot stream .
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jamesg1213
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Re: Risky Business
2017/10/08 15:08:21
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Did a search Greg, but nothing for risk-55 is coming up. Maybe post a screenshot? Something doesn't sound right there. Your first post sounds like you got hit by ransomware.
Have you run your anti-virus/malware stuff?
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craigb
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Re: Risky Business
2017/10/08 16:35:44
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You have what's called a browser takeover. You'll need to get rid of it. Our usual cocktail is in this order: - RKill (kills rogue processes including those designed to keep you from fixing your computer)
- AdwCleaner
- Rogue Killer
- Malwarebytes
- ComboFix (only when all else fails, VERY comprehensive and takes a long time to run!)
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57Gregy
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Re: Risky Business
2017/10/09 14:07:16
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Now everything is back to normal.
I ran the virus scan after the first time, and it ran itself yesterday, finding nothing.
I actually started to phone the number on the bogus MS support site but stopped and googled it.
Lots of threads about how to stop the "annoying ***-***-**** pop-up" but when I clicked on any of them, nothing happened. Definitely seems like a browser takeover, as ITHRN suggests.
Anyway, don't click any of my links!
Thanks for all the comments.
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