Ransom-E - ransom trojan posing as popular VLC Media Player installer!

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Hi malware fighters,

Do not fall for it, a ransom trojan malware that posing as the installer for the popular free Media Player VLC,
you can read about it here: http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_153626.htm
At step three it asks the user to SMS a code to a certain number to get an activation code, this should makes us aware of the fact that we should never install any program or tool from an unknown source.
Alas the unaware that click after anything they see never hesitate to get themselves infected, again forewarned is forearmed,

polonus

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Don’t know if this is the same Ransom, but we already had one infection on the German Avast! Forums.

Here’s an other site with information about this… at Symantec.
The site also provides some kind of keygenerator to get the unlock-code…

yours
onlysomeone