Author Topic: Can I have some of your email addresses?  (Read 785 times)


zahc

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Re: Can I have some of your email addresses?
« Reply #1 on: December 12, 2016, 08:00:46 PM »
I heard of that. seems pretty easy to manufacture a couple of "friends".
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Re: Can I have some of your email addresses?
« Reply #2 on: December 12, 2016, 08:12:44 PM »
I heard of that. seems pretty easy to manufacture a couple of "friends".
From the article it suggests that you would only get decrypted if two others paid the ransom.

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Re: Can I have some of your email addresses?
« Reply #3 on: December 12, 2016, 10:01:18 PM »
Clicked on the link, Screen blinked.  Clicked out immediately.

Will now run AV program.

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Re: Can I have some of your email addresses?
« Reply #4 on: December 13, 2016, 06:16:59 AM »
There's no effing way I'm going to click that link.
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Re: Can I have some of your email addresses?
« Reply #5 on: December 13, 2016, 07:35:24 AM »
There's no effing way I'm going to click that link.
Just do it on mtnbkr's laptop. That is sort of in the spirit of things.

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Re: Can I have some of your email addresses?
« Reply #6 on: December 13, 2016, 09:41:03 AM »
Hmm...wonder if RevDisk will let me set up a remote X session on one of his boxes to check the link from...

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Re: Can I have some of your email addresses?
« Reply #7 on: December 13, 2016, 09:47:10 AM »
There's no effing way I'm going to click that link.

Actually Bleeping Computer is a very reliable website.  They help people remove malware infestations.
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Re: Can I have some of your email addresses?
« Reply #8 on: December 13, 2016, 09:51:23 AM »
Actually Bleeping Computer is a very reliable website.  They help people remove malware infestations.

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Re: Can I have some of your email addresses?
« Reply #9 on: December 13, 2016, 10:05:40 AM »
Lol, it's a link to an article about it...