Ransom Virus

[sean]

I've only heard success stories (if you can even call it that). The code
can't be cryptographically cracked and it's been difficult to track the
authors. There were some leads for one group a week ago or so, but I
haven't followed it. It's a pretty lousy situation.
On Jun 19, 2014 7:26 PM, "Ralph Prowell" <rprowell at gmail.com> wrote:

> I've heard from a friend that talked to someone that paid the ransom and
> they couldn't decrypt the files and he lost the files and lost the money.
>  Is anyone working on trying to either catch these crooks or trying to
> crack their code?
>
> Ralph
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Jun 19, 2014, at 9:20 PM, sean <sean.a.ritzler at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> You have to pay or restore from a backup. You can't beat the encryption.
> On Jun 19, 2014 7:19 PM, "Ralph Prowell" <rprowell at gmail.com> 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
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
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