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re: Ransomware On Your Personal Computer - How Scared Are You?
Posted on 6/7/16 at 5:43 pm to Walking the Earth
Posted on 6/7/16 at 5:43 pm to Walking the Earth
Newer varients delete shadow copies and look for attached storage first. Unless your powering off whatever you backup to everytime you finish backing up, your back ups are vulnerable
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Posted on 6/7/16 at 5:44 pm to DaTroof
Joke's on them, I'm broke.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 5:53 pm to DaTroof
Posted on 6/7/16 at 6:02 pm to DaTroof
I've got most of my files on external drives. USB and a network drive. Just a bit worried about it locking those drives. Though, I could set them to read-only when I don't write to them which is not very often.
Used to backup to DVDs but that was a few years back.
Used to backup to DVDs but that was a few years back.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 6:46 pm to DaTroof
My brother had his infected and they wanted an obscene amount of Bitcoin for the unlock code. I emailed them and told them to frick themselves and we backed up his computer to the day before and has worked flawlessly ever since.
If it's an enterprise system, you are fricked.
If it's an enterprise system, you are fricked.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 6:47 pm to DaTroof
Running Linux so IDGAF. I got the FBI Browser hijacker one time. I just killed the browser session and restarted. Easy peasey.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 6:49 pm to Vlad
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Not at all. I have a robust backup system
Thats fine and all until it start crawling all the users network shares and locks up a few TB's of data....
It's on my own home network, so I think I have that taken care of. I should add that part of my backup system involves dismounting the backup drive when not in use.
I've posted this advice on the tech board a few times and it'w worth repeating - it is not enough to just have a backup. You need to walk through a practice disaster recovery at least once, preferably on a regular schedule. Put together a checklist and actually run through it before you have to for real.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 7:09 pm to DaTroof
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Would you pay, say, $1000 to get access to your files or would you just say frick it and lose all your pictures, videos, important files, sweet porn stash, etc?
frick it.
I have a full backup in 2 different clouds and a hard copy every week.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 7:41 pm to DaTroof
Not really at all. I like to visit hacker sites so I've been hit.
Also I only hits those sites on a pc I consider expendable. If it gets infected I blast it aND rebuild.
Also I only hits those sites on a pc I consider expendable. If it gets infected I blast it aND rebuild.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 7:52 pm to Tempratt
Not at all. I don't do any of the things that get most folks infected, like opening attachments of unsolicited emails or UPS tracking emails with ZIP attachments for items I never ordered.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 8:00 pm to DaTroof
I have a client who got hit with this. Apparently there is a machine in a FQ shop where they direct you to go deposit the money. The shop owner obviously has to be in on it but NOPD couldnt care less.
This post was edited on 6/8/16 at 7:15 am
Posted on 6/7/16 at 8:15 pm to SippyCup
I got this same shite 2 weeks ago on my laptop. I downloaded something and opened an iso image and BLAM!
Anytime I opened Firefox a message popped up saying call Microsoft, this computer has been infected, blah, blah, blah. Couldnt do shite on it anymore.
I called the number provided twice and they wanted $300-$350. It was a Microsoft logo on the page and looked authentic. The first (Dot Indian/Hindu or Muslim)guy was going through the process remote admin on my pc and he was trying to bargain with me, since I told him I couldnt afford it but he when he said hackers would get all my information and that my entire network was fricked I got suspicious.
Called them later after dicking with it and no luck and a (another foreigner)woman answered wanting $350 to fix it. When I told her I couldnt afford it, she went through the same song and dance but she insisted that I pay something today. When I told her I couldnt she said we can setup a payment a month from now. Thats when I told her to frick herself she wasnt getting a cent.
I downloaded Win 10 on a Flash drive and reinstalled Windows. Problem solved.
I dont pay bills or anything on my laptop so they couldnt get anything but my web history or excel spreadsheets. What I found odd was they ran this batch file in DOS that showed the network having a virus. Like my modem was infected. I tried to duplicate it after reinstalling windows and couldnt. I dont keep important shite on my laptop. Its for work and play but the work is not important enough for me to back it up. Anything of value is already backed up on externals so frick them.
Anytime I opened Firefox a message popped up saying call Microsoft, this computer has been infected, blah, blah, blah. Couldnt do shite on it anymore.
I called the number provided twice and they wanted $300-$350. It was a Microsoft logo on the page and looked authentic. The first (Dot Indian/Hindu or Muslim)guy was going through the process remote admin on my pc and he was trying to bargain with me, since I told him I couldnt afford it but he when he said hackers would get all my information and that my entire network was fricked I got suspicious.
Called them later after dicking with it and no luck and a (another foreigner)woman answered wanting $350 to fix it. When I told her I couldnt afford it, she went through the same song and dance but she insisted that I pay something today. When I told her I couldnt she said we can setup a payment a month from now. Thats when I told her to frick herself she wasnt getting a cent.
I downloaded Win 10 on a Flash drive and reinstalled Windows. Problem solved.
I dont pay bills or anything on my laptop so they couldnt get anything but my web history or excel spreadsheets. What I found odd was they ran this batch file in DOS that showed the network having a virus. Like my modem was infected. I tried to duplicate it after reinstalling windows and couldnt. I dont keep important shite on my laptop. Its for work and play but the work is not important enough for me to back it up. Anything of value is already backed up on externals so frick them.
Posted on 6/10/16 at 10:42 pm to oleyeller
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just backup daily, shite! no worries
That's a good first step but until you've done one (preferably two) practice recovery runs you still have to worry.
Posted on 6/11/16 at 12:43 am to DaTroof
I have a spare hard drive with Linux on it sitting in my tower. If I ever have any issue booting I just plug in the Linux drive and use that to copy everything I need from the fricked up drive.
Sorry, hijackers.
Sorry, hijackers.
Posted on 6/11/16 at 12:51 am to DaTroof
You have me worried
Posted on 6/11/16 at 1:23 am to gmrkr5
Zero concern, use commercial off site backup. My friend just had a fire at his home, his external that was used for backup was reduced to a melted lump. If you are not backed up to a cloud server or other type of storage in a different physical location you are not backed up.
Posted on 6/11/16 at 1:45 am to DaTroof
Are you guys serious? Run MBAM in safe mode or kill the page in task manager. Agreed on backing up data.
Posted on 6/11/16 at 1:51 am to TJGator1215
Had a guy at work in his 60s pay $300 bucks and hand over his banking info due to ransomware. I lold in his face when he told me this, a perfect mark
Posted on 6/11/16 at 1:52 am to EA6B
This too.
Posted on 6/11/16 at 2:14 am to DaTroof
Cloud bruh no worries
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