How do you let this happen to you in 2017?

>>60424139

I don't care. I just restore from backups.

>a thread died for this old topic

Because getting cryptolocker'd isn't a question of if - only a question of when.

>>60424151
did you enjoy free-candy-crush-coins-hack.apk.exe ?

Normies dont know how to use computers
more news at 7

>>60424171
Being fucked up the ass isn't a question of if - only a question when.

>>60424197

I actually haven't been infected to date. I'm just pointing out that a good redundant backup makes ransomware ineffective.

>>60424139
How do you even get this? I understood something about it exploiting SMB and shit, but how does it get to the end-users PC in the first place?

t. dumb sheltered safe Linux weenie

If only we made encryption illegal, this never would've happened

>>60424420

If only we made extortion illegal.. . . .

>>60424420
If only we banned hard drives bigger than 128gb and made everyone store everything on the cloud

>>60424448

What's keeping me from running a few dozen of those in a storage pool?

>>60424420
>make one-time pad to send sekrit notes to friends
>get 20 years
>responding to sarcasm
>wtf am I doing

>>60424479
Oy Vey don't get carried away there

1 per customer goy

>>60424420
Brilliant! If only we had more politicians like this.

>>60424151
>implying that's any better

>>60424813

Being able to recover from sabotage is indeed multiple orders of magnitude better than assuming it cannot happen because you enabled auto updates and still get it in the ass eventually.

>>60424487
I ask myself that all the time anon.

>>60424407
some shit with emails

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>when you go to back up your data just in case and realize you have no data worth backing up

>>60424139
Is there pictures like this? I want to prank someone who's afraid of it so much he will flip out when he sees it
>but the timer will be frozen anon
He won't even notice

>>60424407
>be retarded (Like 95% of society)
>be tricked by someone smarter than you
that's how

>>60424877
b-but what about classic porn from 80's ?
they have music
A FUCKING MUSIC
this is something worth a backup

>>60424871
>>60424967
So a shitton of government organizations and massive private companies are just full of idiot employees who just open phishing emails on company computers?

Fuck me dead, this planet is lost.

>>60425022
you can't encrypt a vhs tape

>>60424941
you can google it anon

>>60425058
just because you know how to (let's say) print advanced electronic devices that doesn't mean you are a genius
you just have knowledge on ONE field
>Fuck me dead, this planet is lost.
Don't worry there is a smiling face up in the sky that surely will take care of it :P

>>60425075
even if you transfer it's content to a PC ??
besides i know how to encrypt my VHS tapes
>locks safe
;P

>>60425075

You'd think that but you'd be wrong.