download caution

Get an image of the "ransom note" (use a camera) and look up all the information contained. Many of those have been broken and the key is available without paying the ransom. Some of those are "broken" and the files are already destroyed though...

It is worth a few minutes of searching from a good computer.

Phil

Funny,
My hobbies are sports cars, airplanes, models, you know, that kind of stuff. You guys are computer hobbyists!
Chris...

I was hit once a few yrs back. Same thing 500 bucks pay up sucker scam of course I didn't pay.

Yes there is a FBI site with data to unlock the Ransomware key logger code only those folks
that have been caught.


Lucky for me I had most of my files backed up on an external drive that remains disconnected.
The computer has two internal drives both drives where infected all media files photos and video
blocked from opening. You can now buy USB memory sticks up to 100 gig + so photos can be saved
easy enough. I have McAfee it couldn't stop it the file must have been hiding in a media file such as a pdf.
My guess that allowed second party access to auto download incognito the remaining components to launch the attack.

Lets see

Helping my dad solder heath-kit radios/stereos/tvs in the 60s
Helping my dad build model airplanes in the 60s
Helping my dad fix cars in the 60s
Helping my dad fix lawn mowers in the 60s
Helping my dad do home plumbing and electrical repairs n the 60s

Built my first computer , a Timex Sinclair in the 70s, learned MicroSoft basic programming

now I am a:
Stereo Genius
Ham radio Genius
Hot rod engines and suspension Genius
Motorcycle (Harly) engien Guru
Lawn mower Savant
Owned a few houses now that have never had a electrician or plumber invited out (AC yes)
I used to build high end computers for co-workers but got tiered of being 2AM help desk
I still suck at model airplanes but they bring me the most grins


What was the question?

Oh yes I have severe CRS

stuntflyr wrote:Funny,
My hobbies are sports cars, airplanes, models, you know, that kind of stuff. You guys are computer hobbyists!
Chris...

Yeah, you have to be a sort of minor hobbyist if you want a lean clean fast and trouble-free computer. It depends on what you need it for too. I do lots of writing and business that I can't easily live without, so I tend to be anal about keeping a fit system.

I started learning computers by necessity in the early 80s at work in the office machines industry, but had been interested since electronics school, Devry in the 70s. Two of my best friends were computer scientists, which helped fuel my curiosity, and I studied assembly language on the IBM 360/370. Punch cards and reel to reel tape drives, hard drives that looked like giant hat boxes with platters inside.

I can't remember all the things I need to know if it goes blooey, but I keep a hardcopy notebook titled "Crash Recovery."

I studied machine and assembly on a DEC 11/78- which was just converted away from punch cards.  As difficult as machine was to debug for written code it must've been a real nightmare for punch cards.

I doubt that I have written 100 lines of any code since college.