Last night a lawyer friend of mine phoned me in tears because all off her legal
files had apparently been deleted from her PC (running WIN XP) and all she
could find was a document:
INSTRUCTIONS HOW TO GET YOUR FILES BACK.txt
" . . . Reporting to police about a case will not help you, they do not know
the password. . .
" WE DO NOT ASK FOR MONEY! W e only want to do business with you."
and so on and so forth.
The document states that the documents are stiil on the hard drive but
encrypted with a 30 symbol password - and to get the documents back you must
send an e-mail to 1 of 2 possible e-mails.
This is fairly blatant blackmail.
It scared me.
Nevertheless I got all the documents back using a programs called
"freeundelete.exe" - it is necessary to recover them onto an external volume,
and (obviously) to have the Internet connexion disconnected. On the system I
worked on there was also something called "SpySheriff" that, quite frankly,
stank to high heaven. Whether "SpySheriif" is somehow connected with this
blackmail or not I don't know.
The WIN XP system then needs to be "set back" a couple of days and then the
documents copied back onto the PC's disks.
Sorry that this is completely OT, but I thought that XP users might be grateful
for the information.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson
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"Philosophical problems are confusions arising owing to the fluidity of
meanings users attach to words and phrases."
Mathewson, 2006
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