[Swordmaker]

As Always, if you should see a ransomware alert while surfing the internet in Safari, simply force quit Safari and then restart Safari while holding down the Shift Key. This restarts Safari with no open websites or tabs, preventing any malicious websites or malicious advertisements that opened on perfectly innocent websites from re-opening.

It is up to you to decide whether you wish to take further action such as clearing your surfing history for the past hour, day, or week (all probably unnecessary), or to clear cookies from the last visited sites. Clearing History is accomplished by going in the Safari Menu and selecting the bottom most menu choice of "Clear History. . . " and selecting the time period you desire. Clearing Cookies is done by going into Safari menu Preferences/Privacy and under "Website and Cookie Data. . ."clicking on the "Manage Website Data", then clicking in the empty window to populate it, and then finding the URL of the correct website and clearing the Cookies of the one you wish to clear.

Under no circumstances should you call the number on the ransomware alert. The only phone number you should call is the police.

Please buy an external backup drive (they can be purchased for around $70) and enable Time Machine. A couple of days later your hard drive with all your data will be backed up. This is your ultimate protection against Ransomware. The most you'd be ever out is some of your time to restore your data.

[Red Badger]

In the old days, a horse thief or cattle rustler would be hung, because the horse and the cattle were effectively a person’s life and livelihood.

This ransomware stuff is the same thing.

These people should be hung.................

[Swordmaker]

Ransomware Mac author is distributing his code to the Script Kiddies in exchange for a share of their profits. This is a poor quality Ransomware, but be aware that it is out there. It is a Trojan that is recognized by the macOS operating system and users will be warned before downloading any app that contains it, but it may also be possible to connect it to a malicious ad or website. This malware apparently is limited to encrypting only 128 files, so it's not much of a threat. — PING!

The Script Kiddies Bad Guys Have
Been Given A RansomWare For Mac
Ping!

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[DesertRhino]

Why are they not killed with some kind of government hit squad?

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

force quit Safari and then restart Safari while holding down the Shift Key

Thanks, SM. Advice bookmarked - but also stored in a text file which doesn’t require Safari to read . . .

[Timpanagos1]

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