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Title: "Garda warning"...computer virus! Help needed!
Post by: cicfada on May 02, 2013, 09:43:36 PM
Hi folks, just browsing this evening and loans behold this " Garda warning" virus pops up on my laptop ! Am I best advised to bring it somewhere to get fixed or is there anything I can do to rid myself of it!!
Title: Re: "Garda warning"...computer virus! Help needed!
Post by: Itchy on May 02, 2013, 09:53:57 PM
Hide under your bed.
Title: Re: "Garda warning"...computer virus! Help needed!
Post by: Bud Wiser on May 02, 2013, 09:54:09 PM
Google "Garda virus warning removal" and all the information is there.
Title: Re: "Garda warning"...computer virus! Help needed!
Post by: Geoff Tipps on May 02, 2013, 10:35:56 PM
Quote from: cicfada on May 02, 2013, 09:43:36 PM
Hi folks, just browsing this evening and loans behold this " Garda warning" virus pops up on my laptop ! Am I best advised to bring it somewhere to get fixed or is there anything I can do to rid myself of it!!

Yeah best google for the exact steps needed.
Basically you need to install Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, start your laptop in safe mode and run Malwarebytes.
Title: Re: "Garda warning"...computer virus! Help needed!
Post by: T Fearon on May 03, 2013, 04:49:16 AM
Is the message accompanied by a mugshot of Pillar Caffrey?
Title: Re: "Garda warning"...computer virus! Help needed!
Post by: WeeDonns on May 03, 2013, 11:02:52 AM
It's possibly the ukash virus?
It installs on your machine and throws up a police warning, depending on where you are, asking for £100 to be removed because you've broke some sort of law?

My brother had it recently, although it was a Metropolitan Police warning (must have got the NI ip and decided we were in the uk).

I had to boot in safe mode to the Dos prompt and create a new user on the laptop. Then reboot and log in as this new user. This let you into the computer without the virus window. Then I went about uninstalling anything i didn't recognise and running a free antivirus check to remove it. Job done :)

plenty of info available online on how to remove