Is tape dead?

Fred Cisin cisin at xenosoft.com
Tue Sep 15 12:40:03 CDT 2015


>> Ever heard of CRYPTOWALL ?  I think that I got it from looking at PDFs on 
>> the web while doing some research.  It's a trojan, not a virus.  It runs in 
>> the background encrypting files.  Then it pops up a message demanding 500 
>> euros for the key!

On Tue, 15 Sep 2015, Steven Hirsch wrote:
> Out of curiousity, were you running any sort of protective software (e.g. 
> Symantec, Kaspersky, etc.)?

AVG and McAfee.   not necessarily the best stuff.
Scan, while the malware was screwing stuff up in the background, did not 
find anything to complain about!




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