I am very grateful for my MAC after reading this. Thank Richmond. My
WinXP machine is looking at me right now saying "Oh yeah! Just you wait"
Tom
On May 11, 2006, at 6:13 AM, Richmond Mathewson wrote:
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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