On Nov 18, 2016, at 9:46 AM, Russell Courtenay <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
This modern ransomware threat is scary, I have a separate, removable external hard drive for weekly backup for this reason on the PC server, just wish I could get Windows to recognize the mirrored raid on the main drive! Yep we’ve gotten bitten by ransomware here, our main file server was hit; fortunately the user account involved only had access to one workgroup directory. It was a big one though and they were impacted pretty heavily for the nearly 12 hours it took us to restore from tape. It was educational for them; and prompted a few questions like: "What would happen if this happened to my home computer?” “You would have to pay the ransom, or just restore your latest backup. You DO have a latest backup don’t you?” “Oooohhhhhh” :-) -- Bruce Johnson University of Arizona College of Pharmacy Information Technology Group Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
