email demands a small financial payment (1)
Known as Kenzero, the infection originated in Japan and, in its initial attack phase, is targeting users of a file-sharing service Lenovo 3000 v200 battery called Winni, which claims about 200 million users.
When Winni customers use the site to download illegal copies of games in the adult, animated "hentai" genre, their PCs are becoming infected with the Kenzero virus, which makes a copy of their Web-browsing history Lenovo c200 battery and posts it online, where it is visible to the public.
After infection and the publication of the Web history, the victim is then held for ransom, and a pop-up note or email demands a relatively small financial payment (about $16) from the user in order to "settle your violation of copyright law." The BBC reports that a similar extortion vostro 1500 battery attack targets European users, demanding much higher fees of $400, which is termed a "pretrial settlement."
It's a very brazen way to attack users, pretending to be a law enforcement agency while also engaging in explicitly illegal extortion activities ¡ª but in a world where Web users are hopefully becoming a little more sophisticated and aware of garden-variety malware attacks, I suppose crooks Dell vostro 1720 battery have to resort to increasingly extreme measures in order to extract money from their victims.
In no case should you actually pay an extortionist looking for a handout: There's little assurance they will actually follow through on what they say they'll do for thinkpad r61 battery , and giving credit card or bank account information to one of these crooks invariably opens you up for much more serious financial losses.
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