kramer4077 : I wish I would have done what you did actually lol deleted everything was a pain and took 2 hours to do and with this scam it said I had to pay $400...how much did it say for you?

Divine Aurora : In August I believe it said to pay $300 within 48 hours and that I could buy the cash cards at Walgreens and Walmart to pay the fine.  It really freaks you out when you first get it, but luckily I told my boyfriend right away and he said his buddy had it on his computer in July even, so that made me not worry as much!  The more I thought about it I was thinking why would the FBI have you pay your fine through a cash card from Walmart lol!?  But you feel so scared thinking there's something bad on your computer when there really isn't!  My friend who is a tech guy said you can get it just from doing a Google search and he recommended what you did-to totally restore it to factory settings in case traces of the virus are embedded in my file folders...just can't find those darn start-up discs lol!
Since I couldn't find them I searched on YouTube about what to do and they recommended to use a restore point through safe mode.  Hope everything is working ok for you now on your computer and that's cool you got the Norton subscription again! 

kramer4077 : When it came up on my computer I couldn't even access safe mode I had to go to the boot menu on start up by hitting the f12 or f8 button and then recovery wizard to restore the computer to out of the factory new and yeah everything is working fine now, this actually happened to me about maybe in late July early August. I can't believe some hacker could make a virus like that look and feel so official and I bet they have made alot of money off of this considering people who don't really know alot about computers might actually pay those fake charges.

I have not had my computer blocked, and hopefully I don't have any viruses. Recently read a book about scamming, and I found  out about key logging and such...geez, way to get me paranoid.

*Tip:Never click links in your emails, but rather go to the site itself...many scammers send fake emails with links that may give information away or force you into a membership for a credit card you don't need and probably will never know you had.

Anyways, I try not to download illegal things...sure, I bet most people want things without having to pay, but by no means do I want to get arrested, for surely people would get caught.

I usually download stuff illegally but I've never been blocked. :3

No . But I have been blacklisted though .  Yeah . I have ni idea as to why I would be blacklisted but it happened