This is not truly malware but a hostile WEBPAGE. Just quit Safar, then hold the shift key while relaunching Safari.
To: Swordmaker; ~Kim4VRWC's~; 1234; Abundy; Action-America; acoulterfan; AFreeBird; Airwinger; ...
WARNING!!! OSX USERS!!! WARNING!!! There are now some RANSOME TAKING WEBPAGES that will attempt to extort $300 from you by holding your Safari browser hostage! Seriously. This is easily cleared. It is merely a JAVA script that requires you to dismiss a requester 150 times to make it go away! But the easy way is to quit, or force quit Safari if necessary, then hold the Shift key while relaunching Safari. . . And that page will not reload. Done. —PING!
Apple Ping!
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2 posted on
07/16/2013 10:59:57 PM PDT by
Swordmaker
(This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
To: Swordmaker
My daughter’s laptop caught this one....had to take it in to Best Buy to get it restored...system restore was possible but the malware (or whatever it’s called) kept it from taking the system restore back far enough.....think it put a false date for the malware install.
3 posted on
07/16/2013 11:03:16 PM PDT by
TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig
(It is going to be Foot to Ass combat on election day....my foot and a Rat's ass.)
To: Swordmaker
Unpossible - everyone knows this cannot happen to a Mac.
4 posted on
07/16/2013 11:05:11 PM PDT by
NonValueAdded
(Unindicted Co-conspirators: The Mainstream Media)
To: Swordmaker
Funny i see a thread on this the day after it happened to my wife’s desktop. She was searching glassware prices and got this on her windows desktop.
alt/ctl/delete, stop the browser, empty the cache folder completely, then restart the browser.
5 posted on
07/16/2013 11:09:24 PM PDT by
Safrguns
(PM me if you like to play Minecraft!)
To: Swordmaker
I had one of these pop up while viewing the Marlin firearms page, kind of lost the scare tactic of “viewing an unlawful porn site” when I was looking at firearms. I was using windows and all I did was reboot to safe mode, restore my system and viola! bad scary web page was gone for good. Pissed me off somewhat however and those guys better hope I never find out who they are.
7 posted on
07/16/2013 11:17:41 PM PDT by
calex59
To: Swordmaker
So, are they jumping all the iphone-users?
8 posted on
07/16/2013 11:24:02 PM PDT by
Hardraade
(http://junipersec.wordpress.com (Obama: the bearded lady of Muslim Brotherhood))
To: Swordmaker
I got this stuff a couple of times years ago but ìt came with a logo that mimicked the AVG logo and said my machine had 20,000 virii and I had to update my antivirus software by using my credit card to send, yes- $300, over a supposedly secure website the warning was trying to direct me to. I got rid of it myself and added Malwarebytes to my arsenal and it is the last virus or other malware to have troubled me.
10 posted on
07/16/2013 11:34:39 PM PDT by
arthurus
(Read Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson ONLINE http://steshaw.org/econohttp://www.fee.org/library/det)
To: Swordmaker
this happens on Windows - usually its already too late
11 posted on
07/16/2013 11:34:46 PM PDT by
GeronL
To: Swordmaker
Perhaps you should try an antivirus.
12 posted on
07/16/2013 11:36:07 PM PDT by
JCBreckenridge
("we are pilgrims in an unholy land")
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