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Ransomware On Your Personal Computer - How Scared Are You?
Posted on 6/7/16 at 4:21 pm
Posted on 6/7/16 at 4:21 pm
Ransomware is a type of malicious software designed to block access to a computer system until a sum of money is paid. This could obviously cripple a business so along with antivirus and other security based software most businesses back up files at least daily to prevent as much loss as possible. More often than not the targets are individuals. Unless you back your files up often, you'd basically have to pay whatever they demand in order to get access to your files. How bad would this screw your life up? 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?
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Posted on 6/7/16 at 4:23 pm to DaTroof
Rebeloke alter
Posted on 6/7/16 at 4:23 pm to Shenanigans
Ransomware is a very real issue.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 4:24 pm to Shenanigans
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Rebeloke alter
Negative Johnny. It's a legit question and a legit threat to personal computers.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 4:24 pm to DaTroof
Posted on 6/7/16 at 4:26 pm to DaTroof
I don't think I would ever have anything valuable enough on my home computer that wasn't backed up somewhere online. So for 1K I'd 
at the scammers and just wipe the machine.
at the scammers and just wipe the machine.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 4:26 pm to DaTroof
It's not an issue when you run it yourself.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 4:28 pm to DaTroof
We had it at work because or secretary was an idiot. Lost about a days work after booting to backups.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 4:28 pm to DaTroof
Just coming from an IT person, you should have all of your pictures and important files backed up on either external drives or in cloud storage. It's just dumb to not do that these days. I have told this to so many people at work, who get malware like this. They just never learn.
For company's, spend the money on a good firewall, educate your people. And for goodness sake, backups, backups backups.....
For company's, spend the money on a good firewall, educate your people. And for goodness sake, backups, backups backups.....
This post was edited on 6/7/16 at 4:31 pm
Posted on 6/7/16 at 4:32 pm to DaTroof
Not at all. I have a robust backup system and can switch to a completely blank hard drive and be fully recovered in about one hour, most of which I'd be doing something else while the recovery process runs.
Probably about 15 minutes out of my life, more or less. I do practice runs 2-3 times a year just to be sure so I'm not even slightly worried.
Probably about 15 minutes out of my life, more or less. I do practice runs 2-3 times a year just to be sure so I'm not even slightly worried.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 4:35 pm to Kracka
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backups, backups backups
Basically why I started this thread. Most individuals don't back up very often and don't really understand the real threat this poses. Think about having to pay who knows how much to get access to your personal files......Obviously wouldn't impact everyone the same way but would be devastating to some.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 4:43 pm to foshizzle
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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....
Posted on 6/7/16 at 4:45 pm to DaTroof
my use of my computer is message boards and porn
Posted on 6/7/16 at 4:50 pm to Vlad
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Thats fine and all until it start crawling all the users network shares and locks up a few TB's of data....
That's happened to ours before, but we have imaged based backups, so we spun up a vm, had a server running. Took the other offline and wiped it and restored it. wiped the infected desktops.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 4:56 pm to Kracka
just backup daily, shite! no worries
Posted on 6/7/16 at 4:56 pm to Kracka
We dont do image backups but we do use disk to disk. It just pissed me off as we spent a shitpile of money on new ASA Smart apps that werent smart enough to stop it.
Posted on 6/7/16 at 5:14 pm to DaTroof
I have nothing on my computer that I would pay to have it retrieved. All photos are on my phone or facebook. Important files having to do with car/home purchases are on an external device. That's about it
Posted on 6/7/16 at 5:18 pm to DaTroof
Posted on 6/7/16 at 5:28 pm to Kracka
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you should have all of your pictures and important files backed up on either external drives or in cloud storage
its this kind of advice that made the fappening possible. you are doing gods work
Posted on 6/7/16 at 5:33 pm to DaTroof
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Ransomware On Your Personal Computer
Computers and tablets are dirt cheap these days. There's no excuse not to have a dedicated one for your porn viewing.
And, oh yeah, back your shite up, too.
This post was edited on 6/7/16 at 5:34 pm
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