Ransomware virus hijacks your computer until you pay

DeepXplor

Explorer
Nov 5, 2008
341
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Jersey Shore
I understand that this is true. It is a Cryptolocker virus and they don't have any counter measures yet. The ransome is 300 plus dollars. Don't open e-mails that are label UPS or Fedex unless you are expecting something. Back up your files.
 

Boyd

Administrator
Staff member
Site Administrator
Jul 31, 2004
9,505
2,766
Ben's Branch, Stephen Creek
Seems like the best solution is to just reformat and restore from an older backup that was made before the infection. Don't have a backup? Well, that's one on you then. Now would be a good time to start doing them on a rotating schedule to multiple disks and storing them in different places. Could really save you a lot of grief one day.
 
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