I agree, I'm a Mac user with my IMac, IPad, and IPhone. I use a windows laptop for teaching classes using PowerPoint presentations. And I agree you can't backup often enough.
Sent from my iPad > On Jun 19, 2014, at 10:25 PM, Eric Oyen <[email protected]> wrote: > > well, I wish your friend a lot of luck. The encryption is very difficult to > break and would likely take longer than its worth. > > This is why I strongly recommend daily backups of important data. I have > already seen this on my windows laptop. Fortunately, I had already made a > backup of the entire system. So, It was easy for me to erase using a Linux > rescue disk and then put the old OS back in place. THe only reason for me to > have windows at all around here is for some of the windows specific > applications that are able to be used with JAWS (screen reader for the > blind). All the rest of the time I spend on either the Linux partition on > this mac, or OS X (where I do all my mail). > > So, there you have the lesson. Backup, backup, and more backup (even make a > backp of the backup). > > -eric > >> On Jun 19, 2014, at 7:19 PM, Ralph Prowell 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
