• Re: Why do they say 'disconnect your backup from your PC' when discussi

    From Shadow@1:396/4 to All on Mon Feb 20 04:13:30 2017
    From: Shadow <Sh@dow.br>

    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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  • From Ant@1:396/4 to All on Mon Feb 20 11:53:30 2017
    From: ANTant@zimage.com (Ant)

    David B. <DavidB@nomail.afraid.invalid> wrote:
    On 20/02/2017 16:13, Shadow wrote:
    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

    Frightening, isn't it? :-(

    Eventually, ransomwares will take over our bodies! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
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  • From Diesel@1:396/4 to All on Wed Feb 22 20:15:24 2017
    From: Diesel <me@privacy.net>

    Shadow <Sh@dow.br> news:h75macp8t2itbboi5bhdd16982mki2es00@4ax.com
    Mon, 20 Feb 2017 16:13:31 GMT in alt.comp.anti-virus, wrote:

    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

    Holy ####. Ray still lives. ROFL. Shadow, you're writing to an idiot,
    bro. Seriously. Just a heads up on that. [g]


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