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| Thread ID: 135784 | 2013-12-11 18:51:00 | Ransom Malware | pctek (84) | PC World Chat |
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| 1362325 | 2013-12-12 01:46:00 | Is this all true? I have been wondering whether to purchase some of the "personal part extenders and growth enhancer" packs that are so highly recommended in so many of my emails. Taking my age into account, I think one of the above potion/mechanical gadgets would come in handy, for if they are as good as they say, I wouldn't have to buy a new belt, just wrap it round my waist twice and tie a knot in it. That would be killing 2 birds with one stone. It could save me a few bucks. Could it not? Ken ;) |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1362326 | 2013-12-12 01:55:00 | I had two clients just this week that got infected by this virus and it went through and started encrypting all the shared files on their servers. The strange thing is that they both run Eset and they were up to date, on their exchange server and the workstations, so it got past both of them. NOD eventually picked it up but not before it had managed to encrypt quite a lot of files. This also meant that they never got the ransom screen as NOD had already killed it. Luckily both run ShadowProtect so we were able to just restore from the last good backup, which was an hour before this happened. The infection came from a user opening an attachment from an unknown source.... You can fix that pretty easy with a group policy that doesn't let exe's run in app data, you have to do some white listing of things like gotomeeting mind you. We just brought MalwareBytes MEE for this reason. Cryptolocker be scary. |
Alex B (15479) | ||
| 1362327 | 2013-12-13 01:01:00 | Most of those invoice scam malware viruses things come through as .PDF or zipped pdf attachments | apsattv (7406) | ||
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