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Denver Native (Carol)
11-06-2013, 04:23 PM
If you are especially worried about CryptoLocker ransomware, the best thing you can do, aside from not getting infected, is to create hard backups of important files. It's also important to keep antivirus software up to date. Many CryptoLocker ransomware infections are happening to computers that were already infected with another malware.

Security firms started sounding the alarm earlier this year, but this nefarious cyber nemesis has only picked up momentum. CryptoLocker is spreading its ransomware wings and finding plenty of victims in its path.

But let’s take a step back. What is CryptoLocker? According to AppRiver, CryptoLocker belongs to a type of malware known as ransomware. If a victim is infected, the malware encrypts all files containing certain extensions with a locally stored 2048-bit RSA key and then again asymmetrically with a 256-bit AES encryption key it gets from its command-and-control server Relevant Products/Services.

Once the encryption is completed, the malware displays a pop-up notice demanding the victim pay a ransom for the blocked files he is trying to view. The cost to unlock the files: $300 -- and there’s a time limit of about 100 hours to pay up.

Rapidly Spreading Ransomware

In the last 30 days, AppRiver’s spam filters quarantined 56.6 million e-mails that contained a virus as an attachment. And CryptoLocker is still the biggest piece of malware being trapped. This rate is an increase, for the fourth consecutive month, and is the highest total seen since March of 2012.

rest - http://www.sci-tech-today.com/news/CryptoLocker-Ransomware-Spreading/story.xhtml?story_id=01000147AOOK

Denver Native (Carol)
11-06-2013, 04:24 PM
My son looked into this, and recommended the following links to me

Here is the link to obtain the software: http://www.foolishit.com/download/cryptoprevent/


Here is a link to help explain it: http://www.foolishit.com/vb6-projects/cryptoprevent/

OrangeHoof
11-06-2013, 06:56 PM
I'm supposed to trust a link that says "foolishit"? Really?

Denver Native (Carol)
11-06-2013, 08:19 PM
I'm supposed to trust a link that says "foolishit"? Really?

I am not telling anyone to go there - it was a FYI

By the way, it is foolish IT LLC

Dapper Dan
11-07-2013, 12:44 AM
I am not telling anyone to go there - it was a FYI

By the way, it is foolish IT LLC

Haha. Oh. I read it as full-of-shit. Like full o'shit.

GEM
11-07-2013, 11:21 AM
We use Carbonite and checked with them, they said that if anything like this were to happen to us, our files are all safe on their servers. So another bonus of Carbonite.