Ransom Virus

[Michael Havens]

http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/06/warning-your-phone-is-locked-crypto-ransomware-makes-its-debut-on-android/

:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 3:22 AM, Rprowell <rprowell at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ich danke Dir Hans
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Jun 20, 2014, at 2:46 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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