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Nt1310 Unit 1 Assignment

Satisfactory Essays

In 2013 I got a call from a friend asking if I could stop by and examine his computer. When I arrived there was a message covering his monitor saying, “Department of Justice: Your computer has been suspended on the grounds of the violation of the law in the United States.” After doing some research, I found his computer was infected by the money-pak virus. The scam asked the user to pay 300 dollars to unlock their computer; and, free them of any crime the message stated the user had commit. I believe the culprit was an e-mail attachment that one of his family members downloaded and then opened. I found a fix online by searching for “Department of Justice Money-Pak”, and applied it by running safe-mode with networking on his windows system,

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