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Root Help! Phone locked by Pirates

That's easily accomplished... keep "Unknown sources" disabled in Settings/Security unless you really need it, and enable "Verify apps". This isn't really a virus, it's malware and can only be 'caught' by installing it, which these measures should prevent.
I'm actually a computer guy (Windows... maintenance, building, malware removal, etc), but still learning about Android and it's vulnerabilities. And... it's actually... "ransomware". LOL! :cool:
 
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