re: Ransomware On Your Personal Computer - How Scared Are You?

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.

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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....

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Cloud bruh no worries