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Locky Ransomware??
Per Ken Blake:
I think that that's one of the most dangerous pieces of advice you see around, because it implies that it's safe to do the opposite--open attachments from friends and relatives. But many viruses (and other kinds of malware) spread by sending themselves to everyone in the infected party's address book, so attachments received from friends are perhaps the *most* risky to open. That happened to me at a place where I was doing contract programming. Reasonable-sounding Subject line, reasonable-sounding message, somebody I knew.... so I opened the attachment. Won't go in to what happened next, but thankfully the AC power plug to my PC was within easy reach...... And if somebody from the client had been walking past before I managed to pull it, I would have found myself out on the street within minutes. -- Pete Cresswell |
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Locky Ransomware??
On 4/24/2016 5:43 PM, (PeteCresswell) wrote:
Per son1c: Someone encountered such a problem? And my advice how not to be infected with locky ransomwa 1)You must keep backups of all your important information somewhere other then on the computer you are backing up. 2)It is forbidden to open word files from anyone who you don't know in advance is sending you a word file. 3) Learn to keep data in one place - separate from the System. 4) Back up data to a series of external devices that are disconnected when not being backed up to. At least 3 devices.... I currently use 5. Do you have 5 deadbolts on all of your exterior doors? |
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Locky Ransomware??
Ken1943 wrote:
On Tue, 3 May 2016 11:59:59 -0400, Ron wrote: On 4/24/2016 5:43 PM, (PeteCresswell) wrote: Per son1c: Someone encountered such a problem? And my advice how not to be infected with locky ransomwa 1)You must keep backups of all your important information somewhere other then on the computer you are backing up. 2)It is forbidden to open word files from anyone who you don't know in advance is sending you a word file. 3) Learn to keep data in one place - separate from the System. 4) Back up data to a series of external devices that are disconnected when not being backed up to. At least 3 devices.... I currently use 5. Do you have 5 deadbolts on all of your exterior doors? Paranoid people will never have a life. I will continue to use monthly images. Since it is crazy to figure how to restore one partition in the middle of others on a laptop, I image the whole drive. Worked in the past. Of course on Windows 10, picking a date is like the lottery, GUESS WORK. Ken1943 When they design aircraft or space ships, they put lots of redundancy in them, to cover fairly imaginative failure scenarios. However, rather than casting scorn on someones idea on protection, you should *at least* be able to demonstrate, with your sage advice, that you have covered a primary failure case. It is known that the latest ransomware, encrypts the hard drives in the computer, as well as *unmounted* file shares from other computers (second computer is powered, you're not using the drive as a share right now, but the ransomware mounts it and attacks it). And that means, if you have your backup devices all connected and operational, your "casual" backup strategy could be *completely* wiped out. Think carefully about the latest intelligence on ransomware, before jumping to any conclusions. I'm not sure my strategy here would completely protect me, but I can tell you that some slightly older backups exists on two hard drives, and even if one of the drives is currently connected and powered, I could bootstrap a computer room recovery using the other disk as starting materials. Paul |
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Locky Ransomware??
Per Ken1943:
Do you have 5 deadbolts on all of your exterior doors? Paranoid people will never have a life. I will continue to use monthly images. Since it is crazy to figure how to restore one partition in the middle of others on a laptop, Drives fail. One time I fried 2 or 3 drives before I realized that a USB card was bad and wad cooking the backup drives as they were connected. Computer stuff is not all that - and if you bet the farm on a single device, you are headed for trouble. And consider that drives are *really* cheap.... -- Pete Cresswell |
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Locky Ransomware??
Per (PeteCresswell):
Computer stuff is not all that - SHB "Computer stuff is not all that reliable - " -- Pete Cresswell |
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