A new Trojan tries to extort money from users by convincing them to dial international telephone numbers to reactive Windows, a security researcher said today.
Once on a PC, the malware displays a message claiming that Windows is locked
and must be reactivated, said Mikko Hypponen, the chief research officer of Helsinki-based F-Secure. Users seeing the message cannot boot Windows in either normal or Safe mode, Hypponen said.
This copy of Windows is locked. You may be a victim of fraud or there may be an internal error,
the message states — via redwolf.newsvine.com
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