Cryptowall 3.0

Firetastic

Has anyone ever seen this ransomware or god forbid had it? If so how did you remove it and/or get files back?

Don't worry I haven't got it or anything.

I watched a documentary about scammers and they were talking about ransomware.

windup

from your backup.

tavernman

windup wrote: »

from your backup.

Which of course you don't leave plugged in all of the time

windup

That would be both stupid, and wasteful of electricity.

tavernman

tavernman wrote: »

Which of course you don't leave plugged in all of the time

windup wrote: »

That would be both stupid, and wasteful of electricity.

Sorry why? I meant don't leave the backup drive plugged in to the pc so that it can't be crapped on, and why would it waste electricity , unless you are living up to your username:cool:

windup

What don't you understand, it's plain English, it's foolish to leave a sole backup drive connected all the time, but not as foolish as having no backup.

Leaving a backup drive plugged in all the time would be stupid because a worm such as the one in the thread title could damage the contents, a thief could steal it, an electrical surge or fire could toast it and the machine it's connected to, so when you need it most, it's useless.

Things plugged in 24/7 use electricity unnecessarily, that is clearly wasteful.

forgotmyname

Backup is it called that because when something fails you want to turn back
time so you do actually backup all your data?

My worst mistake was getting all my old computers and backing up all the pictures and video's onto a brand new 1TB HD.
2 days later the drive failed. Under warranty but some idiot cut and pasted all the files and not copied them.

Approx 24 hours per drive to scan sector by sector for the deleted pictures and video to recover them to the new drive.

Also if you have a RAID 0 setup, label the drives. I didnt know which one went onto which socket.

How many backups do you have to have to be safe? These new fangled HDs are rubbish. Ive had more than a few 1TB drives fail.

paddyrg

If you back up your important stuff to an online service like Google drive (which keeps back revisions too) then you should maximise your chance to recover

tom15387202

Stop downloading !!!!!! diallers (do they even still exist lol)

For a true removal - format and reinstall windows.

All my important files, software,movies, pictures music etc are all stored on dropbox (1TB account). They re-download automatically when I reinstall dropbox on my freshly installed OS.

Sorted.

Firetastic

tom15387202 wrote: »

Stop downloading !!!!!! diallers (do they even still exist lol)

For a true removal - format and reinstall windows.

All my important files, software,movies, pictures music etc are all stored on dropbox (1TB account). They re-download automatically when I reinstall dropbox on my freshly installed OS.

Sorted.

Don't want to alarm you Tom but some of the Encryptor viruses can actually encrypt the documents in your Dropbox account.

dogmaryxx

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