On Saturday, February 18, 2017 at 5:08:27 PM UTC-5, Wolf K wrote:
to the infected PC at the time of the attack, immediately?
Easy: Write the ransomware to attack all partitions ("drives").
OK thanks Wolf K. So I suppose ransom-ware will freeze your entire system, all partitions, even USB sticks and external drives that happen to be connected
On 20/02/2017 16:13, Shadow wrote:system, all partitions, even USB sticks and external drives that happen to be connected to the infected PC at the time of the attack, immediately?
On Sun, 19 Feb 2017 12:18:28 -0800 (PST), RayLopez99
<raylopez88@gmail.com> wrote:
On Saturday, February 18, 2017 at 5:08:27 PM UTC-5, Wolf K wrote:
Easy: Write the ransomware to attack all partitions ("drives").
OK thanks Wolf K. So I suppose ransom-ware will freeze your entire
You forgot network drives, and/aka "the cloud". If you have
access to it, the trojan does too.
Only thing safe is a read-only like a DVD or Blu-Ray backup.
Assuming you "closed" the disk. Though in theory even they could be overwritten.
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Frightening, isn't it? :-(
On Sun, 19 Feb 2017 12:18:28 -0800 (PST), RayLopez99
<raylopez88@gmail.com> wrote:
On Saturday, February 18, 2017 at 5:08:27 PM UTC-5, Wolf K wrote:
Easy: Write the ransomware to attack all partitions ("drives").
OK thanks Wolf K. So I suppose ransom-ware will freeze your
entire system, all partitions, even USB sticks and external drives
that happen to be connected to the infected PC at the time of the
attack, immediately?
You forgot network drives, and/aka "the cloud". If you have
access to it, the trojan does too.
Only thing safe is a read-only like a DVD or Blu-Ray backup.
Assuming you "closed" the disk. Though in theory even they could
be overwritten.
[]'s
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