While surfing tonight, the following browser window popped up several times. Restarting my Firefox resulted in it reloading several times, with the timer at the top right continuing to countdown. The page has been designed to look scary (and it mentions the NZ Police towards the end). Has anyone else seen this before, and is it legit? Note that I wasn't looking at any of the type of pages they state I was.
The ukash variant is known for encrypting your files and charging a fee to unencrypt them.
I would check the task manager and make sure there are no odd looking processes running that have image paths in weird places for exe files to be sitting - you can switch on the image path column to make it easier to see.
If you do see something that looks like it might be actively encrypting files then kill it and back up your document files.
But from your screenshot it appears its probbaly just a web browser window and should be okay. Check those processes anyway.
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