Ransom Virus

[Michael Havens]

well, if android is being affected by ransomware what is stopping Linux
from being affected by it?

:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 12:46 AM, der.hans <PLUGd at lufthans.com> wrote:

> Am 19. Jun, 2014 schwätzte Ralph Prowell so:
>
> moin moin Ralph,
>
>  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.
>>
>
> Apple products are also being hit by this. As are Android devices. It just
> takes one hole for any system to be susceptable :(. See Mat Honan's Wired
> story for some Apple-specific issues.
>
> BTW, move to GNU/Linux and LibreOffice for the classes :).
>
> As Eric said: backups, backups, backups.
>
> Hopefully your friend has learned to never again download an application
> from email, especially when using Outlook.
>
> You might see if a file recovery program can find old copies on the
> filesystem. Same for cache files.
>
> Mat Honan article.
>
> http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/apple-amazon-mat-honan-hacking/all/
>
> ciao,
>
> der.hans
>
>  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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