Ransomware

BigV · 06-13-2008, 12:26 PM

You've heard of malware, spyware, spamware, etc. Move over, boys, there's a new ware in town: ransomware.

This evil code encrypts the contents of your computer with its own (very) large key, and then offers you the chance to get your data back by paying a fee.

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Kaspersky Lab said last week that it detected a new version of the ransomware type of Gpcode Virus that essentially holds your data hostage until you pay up. It encrypts files on the hard drive using an RSA algorithm with a 1024-bit key and leaves a message that advises the victim to buy a decryptor and provides an e-mail address to contact.

more here and here.

TheMercenary · 06-13-2008, 12:29 PM

That would seriously piss me off. I wonder if it affects Apples?

xoxoxoBruce · 06-13-2008, 12:30 PM

No, only oranges.

TheMercenary · 06-13-2008, 12:36 PM

What about tomato's. They are a fruit.

Flint · 06-13-2008, 12:44 PM

Back everything up. If they encrypt your sh!t, email them that they can fvck off.

classicman · 06-13-2008, 01:05 PM

No Merc, the tomato's have salmonella

freshnesschronic · 06-13-2008, 01:09 PM

As technology evolves, so does its problems. This sounds terrible, I was infected with vundoware and virtumonde.dll last month which horribly off and on made my firefox unable to open up anything google, yahoo and other various big name sites. I have no idea what the problem is, but to fix it I had to run all of my antimalware which took like an hour, each time.
Thankfully it no longer seems to be infected...

TheMercenary · 06-13-2008, 01:37 PM

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Originally Posted by classicman

No Merc, the tomato's have salmonella

Damm, they are infected as well. So if I eat them will one of these websites take control of my body and ransom me back to my wife???

I got news for them, she ain't paying.

06-13-2008, 12:29 PM	#2
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	That would seriously piss me off. I wonder if it affects Apples? __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

06-13-2008, 12:30 PM	#3
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	No, only oranges. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

06-13-2008, 12:36 PM	#4
TheMercenary “Hypocrisy: prejudice with a halo” Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: Savannah, Georgia Posts: 21,393	What about tomato's. They are a fruit. __________________ Anyone but the this most fuked up President in History in 2012!

06-13-2008, 12:44 PM	#5
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	Back everything up. If they encrypt your sh!t, email them that they can fvck off. __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

06-13-2008, 01:05 PM	#6
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	No Merc, the tomato's have salmonella __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

06-13-2008, 01:09 PM	#7
freshnesschronic Professor Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 1,555	As technology evolves, so does its problems. This sounds terrible, I was infected with vundoware and virtumonde.dll last month which horribly off and on made my firefox unable to open up anything google, yahoo and other various big name sites. I have no idea what the problem is, but to fix it I had to run all of my antimalware which took like an hour, each time. Thankfully it no longer seems to be infected...

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