To unlock it, he was supposed to buy a gift card from Shoppers or Canadian Tire and send it to the “police.” Then they would unlock his screen. The text on the page said it was placed there by Interpol for crimes committed on my client’s computer. The virus interface, which began as soon as he logged into Windows, wouldn’t let him do anything else but stay on the page, which was the virus’s Interpol version, see below. We got in a few computers and answered a lot of phone calls.Ī man visiting from out of town called and said he had a virus on his laptop that had locked his screen. It was still bitterly cold out, so I thought it would be a slow day.
Yesterday, like most Saturdays, I worked at the Ducktoes Computer Repair shop.
