> 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!