Ransomware On Google Chrome

[Carney]

Got a call from a friend this morning running linuxlite 2.8x64.

The chrome browser was frozen with ransomeware.

He told me openly he had been at some "Adult Sites"

He does not have sudo access to the system...Only I have.

First thought was to remove chrome and re-install the browser.

Decided in the end to reformat and install Linuxlite 3.2

Not something you see every Day.

Jocklad 

I suspect it was not real ransomware, just scary pop-ups designed to LOOK like ransomware.

My father-in-law regularly calls me to rescue him from having somehow   ended up stuck with full-screen closure-resistant bogus virus warning windows of a kind that seems endemic to such "grownup" sites, although he never admits he's been to them.  Adding to his self-imposed difficulty is that he sets his screen resolution lower than default in an effort to make fonts and icons bigger, but which also makes it harder to close full-screen windows when the widgets end up off-screen.

He also constantly gullibly installs bogus browser extensions that purportedly hide search history and such.

Sigh, good thing he's not on MS Windows!