Ransom Virus

[Stephen Partington]

Best bet is to restore or reinstall the encrypted files. Then when it is in
good order make a disk backup with clonezilla or granted.
On Jun 19, 2014 8:29 PM, "Ralph Prowell" <rprowell at gmail.com> wrote:

> I agree, I'm a Mac user with my IMac, IPad, and IPhone.  I use a windows
> laptop for teaching classes using PowerPoint presentations.  And I agree
> you can't backup often enough.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Jun 19, 2014, at 10:25 PM, Eric Oyen <eric.oyen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > well, I wish your friend a lot of luck. The encryption is very difficult
> to break and would likely take longer than its worth.
> >
> > This is why I strongly recommend daily backups of important data. I have
> already seen this on my windows laptop. Fortunately, I had already made a
> backup of the entire system. So, It was easy for me to erase using a Linux
> rescue disk and then put the old OS back in place. THe only reason for me
> to have windows at all around here is for some of the windows specific
> applications that are able to be used with JAWS (screen reader for the
> blind). All the rest of the time I spend on either the Linux partition on
> this mac, or OS X (where I do all my mail).
> >
> > So, there you have the lesson. Backup, backup, and more backup (even
> make a backp of the backup).
> >
> > -eric
> >
> >> On Jun 19, 2014, at 7:19 PM, Ralph Prowell 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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