>Individuals may see ransom-ware messages appear on their screens, demanding payments via bit coins
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/ransomware-carleton-university-computers-bitcoin-infects-1.3872702
https://carleton.ca/ccs/2016/network-interruption-update/#comment-147521
>Any system accessible from the main network, that is Windows based, may have been compromised.
>Windows
>>57756561
Surely you guys are used to this bullshit by now.
You've been excusing it for so long you must miss it whenever there's a lull in the attacks.
>>57756501
>Windows
Found your problem
How do you not get randomware?
Just don't click on stupid shit?
>canada
...and nothing of value was lost.
>>57758803
>he literally has down syndrome
Good luck in the Special Olympics, retard.
The Apple MacBook Pro with Retina Display doesn't have this problem.
>>57756561
>>Windows
Doesn't matter the OS if it's a trojan. Someone hijacking and encrypting your home directory on Linux or BSD or (insert OS here, even CP/M and VMS) is just as bad.
Deep-six ad networks in /etc/hosts. Because Flash and HTML5 ads are annoying as it is without malware assholes buying ad space to do drive-by privilege escalation.
And stop installing HAPPY99.EXE and CUPHOLDER.EXE (for you young-uns, it ejected the CD tray. You know, the cup holder.)
>>57756501
lmfao
>>57758806
I have yet to figure out what it is people do that gets them infected
>>57758963
>cupholder.exe
Holy shit I just nostalgad in my pants. Memories of a bygone time when the person running our 8th grade computer lab didn't know anything about computers and was at tears at all the icons on one of the computers desktop doing nothing but making the cd tray pop out
>>57759243
This. I have clicked many shady links in my day and I never got *ware