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Date: | Sun, 25 Jan 2015 14:36:35 -0500 |
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Sorry to mislead, but its a PC virus. Its actually called a cryptolocker, it locks all your data files with roving encryption. You can try to pay a ransom and get them back but its dicey.
THIS IS A SERIOUS VIRUS, any drive attached to your computer will be corrupted, it WILL corrupt and lock your backup files also.....
I unfortunately got it at Xmas all email contacts, a years worth of shop/business records, all my collected data and work for the last 5 years, wiped. I had left my backup plugged in.
Little to no hope to retrieve.
Now the REASON I posted this. This morning I got and email from "Doc" it was a link to a youtube video on Jamie Ellis. directed towards us beekeepers. But its not... its a virus. A very directed one. Look close at the link you will see the you tube is not correct.
Luckily I noticed before I opened. ANY email links are suspect. Its normaly sent as a note from UPS or FEdeX, but now I see they are useing even more clever worms, Directing it towards specific targets, probably from this board, or maybe beesource.....
PLEASE LOOK CLOSE, as for recomendations on how to stopit, I have none, other than vigilance and external unplugged drives.
Charles
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