Two weeks' to block cyber-attack

[Simon]

People have two weeks to protect themselves from a "powerful computer attack", the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) has warned.

Read more:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27668260

[Technical Ben]

Wake me up in the morning before it hits. I know a 100% successful block, but I need to be awake to activate it... Oh, I'll charge £100 a go for anyone wanting me to implement it. At a lesser fee of £50 I can do it over the phone, but they need to be standing next to the plug socket while I give them instructions... 

[psp83]

haha the advice website in that post doesn't work 

http://www.getsafeonline.org/nca/ 

An Error Was Encountered
Site Error: Unable to Load Site Preferences; No Preferences Found

Or sometimes you get

The service is unavailable.

[Simon]

It's a government department.  What did you expect? 

[lozcart]

Two weeks to buy an Apple Mac 

[Simon]

Oh, of course!  This is all a big set up by Apple to increase sales! 

[Simon]

Well, they've got one of them!  Bloody Russians!   

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27668260

[Simon]

I guess some of these utilities might be useful:

http://support.kaspersky.com/viruses/utility#

[Glenn]

Well, they've got one of them!  Bloody Russians!   

Aren't Kaspersky Russian? 

[Simon]

Indeed! 

[Technical Ben]

It's a government department.  What did you expect? 

In all honesty, half those links are wrong (literally the wrong sites linked). The write up looks more like a phishing attack than anything I'm worried will come over...

[Glenn]

Chap from work has just got this on one of his pc's at home, it came as an attachment from his sons estate agent.

[psp83]

I used to only get 1 or 2 emails a week that was infected, but now I get around 10 a day and its getting more and more by the month.

[Den]

All is well here, I had a phone call off a man who works for Windows IT and he said he would check my Windows computer as I had a problem. Nice man and I think he phoned one of my customers earlier today and said the same thing to her. That is the first time they have rung me so I asked what operating system I had and he said Windows so I told him I had a Apple Mac and hung up. 

[Clive]

A friend of mine was caught for £200 by these thieves and then they had the cheek to try it on again just a few days later. 

[Simon]

The head of a government-funded cyber-security advice website apologises and says he is "not sleeping" after the site collapsed under heavy traffic.

Read more:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27695170

[J!ll]

  Is this worse than the Police one that we had a while back? I know my son got rid of that one from a couple of computers, what makes this one different?

[Simon]

Perhaps the fact that it's very difficult to tell if you've got it, makes it more dangerous.

[J!ll]

Oh  well I've done various scans and it say's I'm clean 

[zappaDPJ]

But what about your PC?

[J!ll]