[Hidden-tech] Any experience with a Virus that attacks documents?

[Ed Bride]

Boy, that's vicious. An argument for off-site backup (such as Carbonite) if
ever there was one. It's not much money for peace-of-mind.

Ed

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Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 8:49 PM
To: Lisa Woods; hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net
Subject: Re: [Hidden-tech] Any experience with a Virus that attacks
documents?




It sounds like Cryptolocker.  Google that word to get more information.

Decryption keys have been found for some versions, so you may or may not be
able to recover your data, but I wouldn't count on it.

Jan Werner
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Lisa Woods wrote:
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> Has anyone heard of a virus that corrupts all your documents making 
> them unreadable? It might be called the cryptowall virus or something. 
> The place we normally go (gogeeks) got the virus off our computer but 
> couldn't recover the documents. Our backup copies were on the external 
> hard drive but that was plugged in and got corrupted as well. Any ideas?
> (fingers crossed)
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