Shit, what do?

pay

Format and restore from backup

>>60422735
install Gentoo

kys

>>60422735

Estimates out today are that substantially over $70,000 has been paid out in the last several days. Not one file has been unlocked.

> wat do

Clean HDD, do full security wipe, re-initialize/reformat/reinstall and restore your critical data from backup.

Duh.

>>60422735
DistroWatch.com: Put the fun back into computing. Use Linux, BSD.

https://distrowatch.com/

>>60422735
How do I get this malware on purpose?

how do you even get infected with that shit? don't you have to do stupid shit like all other viruses? such as opening random shit, downloading shit, visiting shit websites without noscript and other SHIT? the only difference with this one is that if you're on a shitty network and 1 person gets it you're fucked? this all seems like a false flag to push everyone to update to the newest version of windows. I only use windows to play vidya.

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oh shit what do?

got this on my phone.

>>60422735

does this thing affect all the drives on a PC or only the boot drive C: ?

>>60422735
Go back in time to 1970 and invent bitcoins and the russian hackers so you can pay them

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>>60423091
95%of the time these viruses end up on PC is because people download some sort of anti virus off a shitty google search

>Clean your PC today Free for 24 hours ONLY!!!

>>60423091
you dont have to have the feature updates you mong, if you're intentionally skipping security updates you're retarded

>>60423521
Kek. Nice

>>60422735
How the hell did you manage to get this?

The Apple Macbook Pro with TouchID doesn't have this problem.

>>60423701
do you know how worms spread? in particular, do you know how this worm spreads?

>>60423837
>do you know how this worm spreads?
By stupid normies
The way all viruses spread

>>60422822
the only sensible answer

>>60423837
Can you elaborate? I really want to know because I thought being careful of which websites you browse and having a firewall and antivirus programs were enough.

>>60423950
>>60423898
if you did even the slightest bit of reading on actual tech news sites, you'd know. if your router is forwarding port 445 and you haven't applied the SMB update, you are vulnerable to a remote exploit.

>>60422735
disassemble exe, find the key in the code, decrypt stuff yourself

>>60423898
Close but no cigar
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms17-010.aspx

This is how it spreads.

IE; if you're on the same network as an infected computer, you get it. That's all you need to do, plug in a cable or connect to the wifi, if there's other computers that do the same, bam.
And if someone connects an infected computer, bam, they infect the entire network.

>>60423950
it scans the network and exploits any vulnerable device, if there is any. no need to download virus.exe and run as admin.

>>60423997
>And if someone connects an infected computer, bam, they infect the entire network.
So you mean I should be running around all my local McDonalds and Starbucks with a pozzed laptop?

>>60424010
:^)

>>60424010
yes

but the fact that you referred to it as 'pozzed' is troubling to say the least..

>>60423984
That's no how public key encryption works

>>60424031
Troubling and problematic and frowny

>>60423560
bumping this question

my drivers don't have partitions, got one ssd for OS and some programs, one hdd where I keep all my shit and a backup external hdd

with that worm does only the OS driver get affected, because I could easily reinstall everything

what about the internal hdd? here I have some programs but mainly files which I don't ahve them saved anywhere else other than the external hdd

and what about the external hdd, can it get affected, can it infect any pc I connect it to?

if you don't want to SPOONFEED, just give me a link where I could read about this

>>60424506
anything mounted to an infected system gets encrypred, including external drives and network drives, if not mounted in readonly mode, although the worm can do privilege escalation, not sure.

Apple MacBook Pro doesn't have this problem

>>60425333
Yeah, but it's expensiv af :(

>>60426696
Linux doesn't have this problem, and if worried you can boot into Linux when you aren't behind your own router then boot into Winshit when you are. Nice use for multiboot or a Linux USB flash drive and a live distro.

It's autspergic to only use one OS when it costs nothing to have more than one.

>>60424010
It won't work because public WiFi has AP isolation turned on, you can't communicate with others at all

>>60422813
This

>>60422735
If this isn't bait, your data is gone. What >>60422813 said won't work. Decryption requests are sent to a Tor site. There has to be a human there to approve the decryption requests, and the site has been knocked out because so many people paid.

Seriously, it's time to just install Gentoo or something.

>>60423734
ROOTPIPE

>>60423984
That's not how it works. Don't talk about things you don't understand because it just makes you look dumb.

>>60422735
Reformat, restore from backup. If no backup, this would be an excellent time to try Linux for a couple of months till all this blows over. Ubuntu MATE or Mint MATE is best for noobs.