'Ransomware' wave growing across United States

Posted by $ nickursis 9 years ago to Government
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This is what government exists for, and like so much of the current one, it fails miserably at doing it. It would not be a hard thing to get the records needed to find the site where this came from, and go after them. International agreements be damned, this is an attack on our country. It is not the first, many government agencies have been done in and the idiots pay instead of having current backups they can fall back on. But if they went and found the criminals, took them out and shot them, I bet it would stop pretty quick. Pure BS that this can happen. Also to protect yourself, do NOT backup to a drive inside the PC, use a seperate backup drive and keep it disconnected. That way, you can always restore your files and flip these idiots the bird.


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  • Posted by Ben_C 9 years ago
    Had an old website of mine hacked by a person in Ukraine. Typically the site is held for ransom. Once I tracked this individual down I told him to go "love himself." Haven't heard from him since
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  • Posted by Esceptico 9 years ago
    The lead sentence: "Computer servers were acting unusual,..." The reporters do not even have a basic command of English. Probably educated in government schools. Since they cannot speak well, perhaps they cannot report well.
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  • Posted by $ 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    it is painful, which is why I am ok with shooting. People who stoop to this kind of mayhem need to just go away..and be disconnected.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    That what I do, ever sense I lost my computer to one of these things...I unplug from everything while I am not using it.
    I used to shut down our modem too until my wife got her "dumb" phone...didn't help matters any when I forgot to plug back in the modem a few times either...
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  • Posted by $ 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    All the articles I have read say that you much click on an email attachment, or go to a specific spoof website to load ransom ware. I would also say a good package security software like Kaspersky Internet security is pretty good protection, they never tell you how they got infected, just that they did. A goof firewall filter would have stopped the school thing, I think.
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 9 years ago
    Good advice...so much for government protection, hell, the left is probably in on this.
    Had something similar happen to me when I was writing my first book...good thing I had just backed it up in anticipation of sending that back up to the publisher...I did have to buy another computer though...this crap sucks.
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  • Posted by $ 9 years ago in reply to this comment.
    Well, this is just something that is really irritating, and costly, to no purpose. It reminds me of the 1800s west. No government should be paying ransom with my tax money.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years ago
    The safest computers have two things in common. Unplugged from power source. Unplugged from any any modem, wifi whatever connection. nothing new there but the simplicity has evaded people for three decades.
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