A few weeks ago, someone on here recommended MYPREMIUM.TV for watching live Sky Sports for free. I tried it (with varying degrees of success) and have managed to watch a few Superleague matches over the last few weeks. Tonight I logged on to watch the Wigan/Warrington match, but had only got a few minutes into the match when suddenly the game went off, and I got a large message in the centre of my screen, allegedly from the Metropolitan police, claiming that they had detected illegal activity on my computer and that my computer was locked, and I would be prosecuted unless I paid a fine within 24 hours.
Sure enough my computer was locked, and the only way of getting out was to open the Task Manager (CTRl + Alt +Delete), and shut the computer down that way. I tried re-booting, but the message just kept popping back up every time.

Suspecting something was not right, I went on the laptop and googled this issue and discovered that it is a malicious virus which is basically a scam to relieve you of your hard-earned cash !!! (Suffice to say some people paid the money to try and avoid being prosecuted, but after paying the money.. surprise, surprise the threat was still there !!!)

The virus is called the Metropolitan Police Ukash Virus (google it for yourself), but there are others too, and apparently they are rife on the internet, mainly on free tv websites such as MY PREMIUM. TV.

It has taken me 2 and a half hours to finally delete the thing and get my computer back to normal again (download free MALWAREBYTES, run it, and then do a SYSTEM RESTORE).

Suffice to say I will not be watching any more "free" matches on the internet, and will just have to revert to getting the sister-in-law to tape them for us, and watch them at a later date.....YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED !!!!!

The easiest way to scam people is to get them involved in illegal activity. You thought you had found a way of watching for free what everyone else pays £40 for. It was only ever going to end in tears.

Yes, it's been going around lately and found it loads of places, they're pretty clever in the way they work because they get round the computer's Anti virus, it's a ransomware-based malware. I deleted it from a few people's comps recently, you can usually find the problem file in the users folder, in the appdata files and look around for something that doesn't look right. But the easiest way is to run Malwarebytes if your not sure what you're looking for.

Here's how to avoid the virus - don't try to nick TV that is not free to air.

That's right. The world is a different place now, because many things we used to have as physical things are now things we can no longer hold, like music or ebooks or computer streaming. It is still the property of someone, in this case Sky TV, and it is theft to obtain it for nothing in this country.

You might as well say, "watch out for that bloke selling cheap car stereos from the back of that volvo. It turns out that they were stolen, and you'll get loads of big blokes smashing your door in". Tough. Don't buy nicked stuff then.

Most blokes would be screwed because it's mostly found in porn sites.

Why not ask a friend or someone in the family to borrow their Sky log in details, boot Sky Go up and away you go. %100 free, %100 legal. Jobs a good un.

Well, not exactly 100% legal, but not viruses and unlikely to get caught

Now limited to two devices, to combat exactly what you've suggested.

We often get posters giving links or info to dodgy links on here and perhaps those that think we are spoil sports will get the message.

Half the sites we see are illegal and the other half are just dodgy, you get what you pay for.

Is that you Keith Lemon?

No, it's Richard Keys.

And over to Andy,,,,,,,,

Quote: BIGAL1 "We often get posters giving links or info to dodgy links on here and perhaps those that think we are spoil sports will get the message. Half the sites we see are illegal and the other half are just dodgy, you get what you pay for.'" Have to agree with you Bigal, and take this one on the chin....I thought it was too good to be true...and it was !!!! Now where's the remote viewtopic.php?f=33&t=421878 for the video ??????

Quote: BIGAL1 "We often get posters giving links or info to dodgy links on here and perhaps those that think we are spoil sports will get the message. Half the sites we see are illegal and the other half are just dodgy, you get what you pay for.'" Have to agree with you Bigal, and take this one on the chin....I thought it was too good to be true...and it was !!!! Now where's the remote viewtopic.php?f=33&t=421878 for the video ??????

My mum was phoned by a company pretending to be BT and they got her to log onto a website claiming it would get rid of a virus on her laptop. It rendered her PC useless and they wanted money to fix it.

its easier to use a mate who has a sling box... perfect pictures and legal ish lol