Now that is funny!!
On 2014-06-20 00:46, Lyle Tuttle wrote:
Someone should have told the IRS about backups.....
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
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