Fwd: Re: Ransom Virus

2014-06-20 Thread Lyle Tuttle
recently a friend of mine opened an outlook message that asked her to download a program that turned out to be a ransom virus and has encrypted all of her Microsoft office files and are wanting her to pay a ransom of $500 to get her files back. Has anyone had any success in retrieving

Re: Ransom Virus

2014-06-20 Thread Michael Havens
a backp of the backup). -eric On Jun 19, 2014, at 7:19 PM, Ralph Prowell wrote: Just recently a friend of mine opened an outlook message that asked her to download a program that turned out to be a ransom virus and has encrypted all of her Microsoft office files and are wanting her to pay

Re: Fwd: Re: Ransom Virus

2014-06-20 Thread techlists
of the backup). -eric On Jun 19, 2014, at 7:19 PM, Ralph Prowell wrote: Just recently a friend of mine opened an outlook message that asked her to download a program that turned out to be a ransom virus and has encrypted all of her Microsoft office files and are wanting her to pay a ransom of $500 to get

Ransom Virus

2014-06-19 Thread Ralph Prowell
Just recently a friend of mine opened an outlook message that asked her to download a program that turned out to be a ransom virus and has encrypted all of her Microsoft office files and are wanting her to pay a ransom of $500 to get her files back. Has anyone had any success in retrieving

Re: Ransom Virus

2014-06-19 Thread sean
You have to pay or restore from a backup. You can't beat the encryption. On Jun 19, 2014 7:19 PM, Ralph Prowell rprow...@gmail.com wrote: Just recently a friend of mine opened an outlook message that asked her to download a program that turned out to be a ransom virus and has encrypted all

Re: Ransom Virus

2014-06-19 Thread Ralph Prowell
to be a ransom virus and has encrypted all of her Microsoft office files and are wanting her to pay a ransom of $500 to get her files back. Has anyone had any success in retrieving these ransom files from an infected machine? If so please contact me if you have any ideas how to retrieve

Re: Ransom Virus

2014-06-19 Thread sean
a program that turned out to be a ransom virus and has encrypted all of her Microsoft office files and are wanting her to pay a ransom of $500 to get her files back. Has anyone had any success in retrieving these ransom files from an infected machine? If so please contact me if you have any

Re: Ransom Virus

2014-06-19 Thread Harold
Is there any record of the ransom virus on a Linux system? Harold On 06/19/2014 07:31 PM, sean wrote: I've only heard success stories (if you can even call it that). The code can't be cryptographically cracked and it's been difficult to track the authors. There were some leads for one

Re: Ransom Virus

2014-06-19 Thread Ralph Prowell
No the only infections I've heard of come from windows users. Ralph Sent from my iPad On Jun 19, 2014, at 9:34 PM, Harold iscream...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any record of the ransom virus on a Linux system? Harold On 06/19/2014 07:31 PM, sean wrote: I've only heard success

Re: Ransom Virus

2014-06-19 Thread Eric Oyen
an outlook message that asked her to download a program that turned out to be a ransom virus and has encrypted all of her Microsoft office files and are wanting her to pay a ransom of $500 to get her files back. Has anyone had any success in retrieving these ransom files from an infected

Re: Ransom Virus

2014-06-19 Thread Ralph Prowell
that asked her to download a program that turned out to be a ransom virus and has encrypted all of her Microsoft office files and are wanting her to pay a ransom of $500 to get her files back. Has anyone had any success in retrieving these ransom files from an infected machine? If so

Re: Ransom Virus

2014-06-19 Thread Stephen Partington
the lesson. Backup, backup, and more backup (even make a backp of the backup). -eric On Jun 19, 2014, at 7:19 PM, Ralph Prowell wrote: Just recently a friend of mine opened an outlook message that asked her to download a program that turned out to be a ransom virus and has encrypted all