Is there any record of the ransom virus on a Linux system?
Harold
On 06/19/2014 07:31 PM, sean wrote:
>
> 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@gmail.com
> <mailto:rprowell@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@gmail.com
> <mailto:sean.a.ritzler@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@gmail.com
>> <mailto:rprowell@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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