No the only infections I've heard of come from windows users. Ralph
Sent from my iPad > On Jun 19, 2014, at 9:34 PM, Harold <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Is there any record of the ransom virus on a Linux system? > > Harold > >> On 06/19/2014 07:31 PM, sean wrote: >> I've only heard success stories (if you can even call it that). The code >> can't be cryptographically cracked and it's been difficult to track the >> authors. There were some leads for one group a week ago or so, but I haven't >> followed it. It's a pretty lousy situation. >> >>> On Jun 19, 2014 7:26 PM, "Ralph Prowell" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I've heard from a friend that talked to someone that paid the ransom and >>> they couldn't decrypt the files and he lost the files and lost the money. >>> Is anyone working on trying to either catch these crooks or trying to crack >>> their code? >>> >>> Ralph >>> >>> Sent from my iPad >>> >>> On Jun 19, 2014, at 9:20 PM, sean <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> You have to pay or restore from a backup. You can't beat the encryption. >>>> >>>>> On Jun 19, 2014 7:19 PM, "Ralph Prowell" <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> Just recently a friend of mine opened an outlook message that asked her >>>>> to download a program that turned out to be a ransom virus and has >>>>> encrypted all of her Microsoft office files and are wanting her to pay a >>>>> ransom of $500 to get her files back. >>>>> >>>>> Has anyone had any success in retrieving these ransom files from an >>>>> infected machine? If so please contact me if you have any ideas how to >>>>> retrieve these files. >>>>> >>>>> Thank you, >>>>> Ralph >>>>> >>>>> Sent from my iPad >>>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] >>>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>>> --------------------------------------------------- >>>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] >>>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
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