Ransom Virus

[Harold]

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 at gmail.com 
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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
>>     <mailto: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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