bug on laptop .....police warning !

pennymakespounds

kids must have been doing something naughty!

laptop has the "cheshire police fine warning"

trying to remember how to sort , thought it was f7 safe mode then run malwarebytes ? , ....... f7 gets to screen "boot manager"' chose "windows 7" then to a "video source" box ' cancelling takes it back to police message.


help ?!

NiftyDigits

It of course is a scam.

Norman_Castle

I just update and run malwarebytes in normal mode.

edit. oops, just noticed your screen may be locked.

dogmaryxx

F8 for safe mode

NiftyDigits

More info here

harleq1962

NiftyDigits wrote: »

More info here

thanks for this link, mates had this twice on his pc, kids just click yes to anything on the screen that asks for permission, ive just restored it with discs, im sure he will find this interesting.

ballyblack

it probably game with a 'FREE GAME' they downloaded

fenlander_uk

This may be a simple solution.

rmg1

I've just removed something similar from a friend's machine using the Avira rescue disk.
Only took about an hour or so.