18 Sep
2015
18 Sep
'15
9:57 a.m.
On 18 September 2015 at 18:49, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
Absolutely.
I now think that it was a "We're Adobe, click here to update Flash Player"
or maybe "Java update"
I can see how one of those, done well, might fool most of us. I am not
one of those daredevil ascetics who runs Windows without anti-malware
but with no Flash, Java, etc. -- crap like that is the reason I run
Windows. I won't let MS clients connect to the Internet on my own
machines though -- no MS chat client, email, browser, music player,
video player, _anything_. All disabled or removed and replaced with
FOSS alternatives.
Sadly, this isn't really practical in business.
But, I never got my winnings from the Elbonian
Lottery.
It would have been all muddy anyway.
It got everything in that computer, and started on the
backup drive that was
currently connected. I now realize the importance of diconnecting the
backup drive promptly. D'uh!
Yes, and thank you for the salutory lesson!
But, it got bogged down in the first directory of the
backup drive, and
hadn't moved on to the other directories by the time it started extortion of
the computer! Tht directory was full of zillions of files, mostly photos
copied from my friend's computer after he died. He saved me from beyond the
grave! And, I still have his machine to make another copy of those.
Small blessings, I guess.
Hmmm. 30 years ago, I stepped on the DIRectory of a
floppy, and created a
subdirectory that had a subdirectory that was its parent directory. It
actually worked well enough to prevent CHKDSK /V from being able to walk the
DIRectory tree (kept trying to follow subdirectories back onto themselves).
I wonder if that would work on this? (until they notice, and change their
sequence). Also created files named "*.*" and "????????.???",
multiple
entries for same file in DIRectory, etc.
Niiiiiiiice...
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