Remember those viruses that were around a few years back. They would lock your computer unless you paid like $100. I believe most said something like . This isn’t a legit copy of windows. Pay now or you can’t login.

And if you paid. It was of course just stealing your credit card. But a lot of stupid people did it.

I remember I got the virus once and I had to use another computer to get rid of it by making a boot flash stick. … I can’t recall the details but there wasn’t any way to fix it on the computer because it locked you out of everything.

Maybe around during windows 7 of 8?

Anyway. I bet that’s where they got the idea.