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| Thread ID: 135289 | 2013-10-17 07:20:00 | Ransomware | effie c (6856) | Press F1 |
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| 1356275 | 2013-10-17 22:48:00 | Someone needs to track these guys down and sort them out, surely if they are demanding money there is a trail back to them that could be followed either through the contact details or the money transfer. I struggle to understand how these things stay around as long as they do. The countries these guy often operate from, have corruption at all levels, thats how the get away with it. Add to that, organised crime is now (supposedly) involved it makes it harder to find the real culprits & shut them down These 'viruses/hacks' are often sold on the open market, so allmost anyone could buy a 'kit' & do this themselves I have seen analysis of one variant of Fake Av malware, that required the PC user to click on bogus popups 3x !!!!!! for the infection to install. So yep, user stupidity/ignorance plays a big part in malware infections. The stupidity of some employees, who use a PC 8 hours a day, yet have absolutley no PC knowledge is frightening..... Thats why some never get active infections on their PC's, & others have ongoing issues. |
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| 1356276 | 2013-10-17 23:58:00 | Hi all,again, Got a 500gb h/d from Warehouse for $89 and am backing up as I write---- gave away a chance of getting 1 Tb for $99. on special , perhaps my pension has not been sucked dry ;-) and I will live another day after all Thanks to one and all- a good learning curve Effie c |
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| 1356277 | 2013-10-18 00:58:00 | Hard drives are cheap now compared to how expensive they used to be. Apparently RAM is likely to get expensive soon due to some for mof natural disaster around the manufactors. | Slankydudl (16687) | ||
| 1356278 | 2013-10-18 01:05:00 | Pbtech have a 1tb for $91 on special. I grabbed one to image my 3 machines on to. | dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1356279 | 2013-10-18 01:23:00 | Also, keep in mind, you may be able to boot off a CD or USB drive to remove it, but you're basically up the creep without a paddle when it comes to getting your files back. Once they're encrypted, they're gone for good... So you've *got* to restore from backup. | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
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