От: | Lazytech | ||
Дата: | 13.04.15 05:34 | ||
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Freelance writer Sandra Gordon paid $637 when her computer was infected in January. Gordon, who faced losing files going back 16 years, decided to pay after technicians said there was nothing they could do. She didn't have a secure backup.
A neighbor of mine suffered a ransomware attack. He told me his old computer was slowing down, so I ran an antivirus rescue disk on it, but the disk made the computer un-bootable.
Thing is, he's an old guy with nothing but family photos on his old XP desktop. He lost all of them because he didn't have the money to pay the hijackers.
I replaced his old OS with Linux, so he uses that now. He's got nothing left to steal. Congratulations, hackers.