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Thinkpoint PC virus/scam.


RedM

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Anyone else had this? What a f**cker.

 

Got back to my parents on Sunday evening after a day out in Old London Town ™ and they presented me with a two week old Win7 pc that had something called Thinkpoint on it.

 

Apparently it looked identical to a standard MS security essentials alert so they chose the scan option. Big mistake. It dumped something onto their PC which blocked them from using Explorer. Basically they couldn't do a thing except look at this trojan PoS. Every option bar one left them locked down.

 

The one remaining option was to pay for a full scan.

 

Even booting onto safe mode brought up the 'scan screen' and windows remained unusable.

 

Sorted it out in quick time though but, Jebus, what a hassle.

 

Anyhow, keep your eyes open Windows users.

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