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1 posted on 10/07/2016 9:09:42 AM PDT by lafroste
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2 posted on 10/07/2016 9:11:29 AM PDT by nwrep
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You might be able to reboot in Safe mode and do a system restore.


3 posted on 10/07/2016 9:11:31 AM PDT by IronJack
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Any computer store can fix it for about $100. You might lose data though.


4 posted on 10/07/2016 9:12:31 AM PDT by fedupjohn (Trump, The Alpha Male Chosen By Sarah Palin To Lead our Army To Victory..Trump/Pence 2016...)
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Probably safest thing if you don’t have a system backup is to get any valuable files off of there of you haven’t already and use recovery media to reinstall windows from scratch.


5 posted on 10/07/2016 9:12:42 AM PDT by MountainWalker
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https://www.nomoreransom.org

hope you have some back-ups


6 posted on 10/07/2016 9:14:30 AM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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This is a chronic automated post???

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7 posted on 10/07/2016 9:14:46 AM PDT by CreviceTool (A Good Samaritan with a handgun saved my life...)
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Not going to be able to offer specific recommendations without more info. Like OS, backup systems, which ransomeware, networked computer, etc.

There are some trojans that are spoof ransomeware, so knowing what you have is important.


9 posted on 10/07/2016 9:14:59 AM PDT by wrench
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Please call law enforcement.


11 posted on 10/07/2016 9:15:35 AM PDT by lafroste (this is what happwns,)
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I thought something was up yesterday when the text in your posts were complete gibberish, a non-nonsensical string of random keyboard characters. How would that relate to this?


12 posted on 10/07/2016 9:17:42 AM PDT by ETL (God PLEASE help America...Never Hillary!)
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When it happened to me I reloaded from a backup disc.


14 posted on 10/07/2016 9:19:24 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam , Know Peace)
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Two quick considerations: if your personal data (pix, documents, etc) are backed up somewhere else, and you have the operating system disk, slick your system completely and start over. If there are data on the disk that are irreplaceable, you've messed up, and you may find yourself in the position of having to pay the ransom or kiss the data goodbye.

Your best defense against this sort of thing is (1) make frequent backups, and (2) keep copies of your most important data on removable media such as thumb drives so they aren't physically available to be hijacked. Hope it works out for you, and if I can help FReempmail me when you can.

15 posted on 10/07/2016 9:19:43 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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Ping


16 posted on 10/07/2016 9:21:15 AM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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Ping


17 posted on 10/07/2016 9:21:25 AM PDT by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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And the site we should avoid is.........


18 posted on 10/07/2016 9:23:29 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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Hard drives are cheap. Pull yours and put it in an external case. Install a new one internally and load a clean system. Then access the bad drive externally. Use a file program to access the external disk and get your data files off of it, then reformat it.


19 posted on 10/07/2016 9:28:19 AM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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suicide is painless


20 posted on 10/07/2016 9:28:29 AM PDT by garykfd (American by Birth, Southern by the Grace of God)
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Most ransom ware encrypts the hard drive. If that is the case you have little option other than a wipe, restore and recover from backup.


22 posted on 10/07/2016 9:29:20 AM PDT by taxcontrol
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I did a system restore, and I’m back. Thank you all for your help. The original post was from my phone. That explains its brevity.


23 posted on 10/07/2016 9:29:40 AM PDT by lafroste (this is what happwns,)
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Put out the power plug, and/or battery and restart.


29 posted on 10/07/2016 9:38:27 AM PDT by Fido969
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Unplug or force shut down. Start up run virus scan. Some of these things are not really viruses but tracking cookies.


33 posted on 10/07/2016 9:54:30 AM PDT by jetson
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