It’ll pick a particular folder or group of folders and encrypt that. It
wouldn’t encrypt the entire disk or the PC wouldn’t be able to boot and give
the ransom demand.
I’d imagine it scans through your home folder and picks up any documents/images
and encrypts those. I haven’t heard of anyone on a Mac being affected yet
though.
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On 25 Nov 2013, at 20:00, Jason Davies <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 25 Nov 2013, at 19:21, Pat Wilson wrote:
>
>> Excuse my ignorance but would this mean that the files in shared folders
>> synchronised to my mac would also be encrypted?
>
> doesn't it encrypt the entire disk into one file? This is a good question,
> actually. If it is perceived by Dropbox as removing them, yours could vanish,
> I suppose...
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