As I read it if you are sharing Dropbox files/folders with a Cryptolocker virus infected Windows user then these will be encrypted. If you use Dropbox and have files syncing with that service, Dropbox creates file versions. Use this to get your file’s most recent good version – as well as determine the time of infection. You may get a file back, but doing it in DropBox’s web interface, one file at a time, will be painful.
And, of course, if you have Time Machine operating, by knowing when the time of infection took place you can revert to a good version of the file/folders from this as well. So not necessarily disastrous for Dropbox users, or any other cloud service which has file versioning. E&OE!!!! Regards, Tony Sent from my iPad > On 25 Nov 2013, at 19:21, Pat Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've been reading a bit about the windows virus cryptolocker. I share Dropbox > folders with quite a few windows users. It would seem that Dropbox folders > can be affected. Excuse my ignorance but would this mean that the files in > shared folders synchronised to my mac would also be encrypted? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
