scott-atkinson
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Has anybody had any experience of their system being infected by the Cryptowall Virus?
My personal laptop became infected at the weekend, and the first I knew of it was when a Ransom note in four different file formats popped up upon my start up.
It was very helpful gave me lots of information on what the Hijackers had done to my laptop and how they had encrypted my files, even gave me some very helpful links to independent websites so I knew exactly what the infection was.
A link was provided to go to a payment website where, and this made me chuckle, I had to enter a verification code to access the site
, this website then informed me that I had 7 days to pay 500 USD in Bitcoins or after 7 days the ransom went up to 1000 USD, after which my files would be locked down and fried beyond repair..
Of course I didn't pay, and took my laptop into a repair shop, told them to wipe the Hard Drives clean, re-format them and then re-load the OS and all relevant Drivers.
Luckily I didn't have anything really of importance on the drives other that some excel files and a few Saved Game files..
All my pictures I had backed up a month before, so they were pretty much safe..
The people who designed this Virus and took the time to build all the elaborate infrastructure around it, if they could actually turn their times to something other than Crime, I'm pretty sure they would be brilliant..
But for now, they are just a bunch of Bast*rds.. and I wish then a slow painful death.. I hope they have a good day
My personal laptop became infected at the weekend, and the first I knew of it was when a Ransom note in four different file formats popped up upon my start up.
It was very helpful gave me lots of information on what the Hijackers had done to my laptop and how they had encrypted my files, even gave me some very helpful links to independent websites so I knew exactly what the infection was.
A link was provided to go to a payment website where, and this made me chuckle, I had to enter a verification code to access the site

Of course I didn't pay, and took my laptop into a repair shop, told them to wipe the Hard Drives clean, re-format them and then re-load the OS and all relevant Drivers.
Luckily I didn't have anything really of importance on the drives other that some excel files and a few Saved Game files..
All my pictures I had backed up a month before, so they were pretty much safe..
The people who designed this Virus and took the time to build all the elaborate infrastructure around it, if they could actually turn their times to something other than Crime, I'm pretty sure they would be brilliant..
But for now, they are just a bunch of Bast*rds.. and I wish then a slow painful death.. I hope they have a good day
