Last week my wife was using her laptop on facebook. She had a message come up that she had 1 minute or something like that to pay a ransom or her hard drive would be deleted. She was online via Foxfire. I grabbed her laptop, unplugged it, removed the battery then restarted it. I deleted Foxfire then went to IE and downloaded a new version of Foxfire and made sure Norton was onboard protecting her. Everything is still working fine. I had heard of other people paying the ransom. I would have took the laptop out and shot it first and purchased a new one.