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Good advice all around.

Seems the price is higher than cryptolocker and getting personal files unlocked (jpg pdf mpe wmv). Maybe the perps know that gamers are so into their stats and levels that payment is probable.

I play alot of games but none online. The flash based games I have loose your points when ever you clean your cache and temp file so I start over all the time. Sadly for some, they may consider paying to keep their game on level.

Also makes me wonder what's the next avenue of attack?

 

Regulars here use any of Acronis, Easeus ToDo, Macrium Reflect, Aomei Backupper or, in my case, Paragon Hard Disk Manager. They all seem to work completely reliably.

 

Wonder no more...

http://www.networkworld.com/article...-chm-being-used-in-cryptowall-3-0-attack.html

 

People aren't silly enough to open chm files in programs they don't know or trust...are they?

 

People aren't silly enough to open chm files in programs they don't know or trust...are they?

A country song put it this way - God is great,,Beer is good,, People are crazy!.

Eldon your link shows a defense as "Crypto Immunizer". I use crypto defense available on MG's. Wonder if both protect in the same way.

 

They are. The Malware Removal Forum has 347,134 posts. Where did those users 'get' the malware?

Also, these infected CHM files are disguised as fax reports. From the report: "Users weren’t even attempting to access Help files. Instead, the CHM files appeared as if they were an incoming fax report email from a machine in the user’s domain." Nasty!

Imandy Mann, the article has a link to Bitdefender Anti-CryptoWall. Which one did you download from MajorGeeks?

 

Grand Gnome #1,

I have used Paragon Drive Backup to make a "Bootable Backup" of my Windows XP installation that included about 2GB of programs and all the settings for Windows, the Onboard Motherboard Drivers, etc., in total, about a 3 hour install. When it came to a re-install, it took just 23 minutes to have a new/fresh installation of Windows with all the goodies.

 

Which one did you download from MajorGeeks?

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This is the one I'm running. From FooliShIT. Joke of a name for foolish IT. I hardly know it's running until it flags something. It has responded to a couple of programs I use but known to be allright. It caught these programs trying to write to an area of memory it guards. So it is invisible until it makes a catch. There a newer one now on MG's if you do a search for "Crypto Prevent" the newer one is first on the list and this one from 2014 is second.