Posted on 07/31/2015 7:14:01 PM PDT by dayglored
People aren't good at waiting for stuff, and with, computer users queueing up to download Windows 10, ransomware purveyors have started to move in.
Cisco's security team has noticed a new spamming campaign attempting to spread the CTB-Locker ransomware using emails purporting to come from Microsoft, telling people they are ready to download Windows 10.
The emails mimic the actual Windows 10 messages Redmond is sending out (with some minor text mistakes) and have spoofed the originating address to read as update@microsoft.com, although the sender's IP address can be traced back to Thailand. There's also a Microsoft disclaimer, and a message claiming the files have been cleared as virus-free by Mailscanner.
A 734KB attachment included in the emails claims to be a Windows 10 installer but actually contains the ransomware, which sets to work encrypting documents, media files, and anything else that might be useful to the hapless people who double-click on it. Analysis of the source code is ongoing, but the elliptic curve encryption algorithm used looks sound.
"I suspect this one is going to be an absolute bastard to deal with because they use good asymmetric encryption," Craig Williams, security outreach manager of Cisco's Talos team told The Register.
(Excerpt) Read more at theregister.co.uk ...
LOOK OUT!!
Too late for me...but everything seems to be working well so far.
You really would like to find those people and .......
Any email that looks like it might come from Microsoft is almost guaranteed to be fake.
Have you installed Windows 10, Skydancer? Do you like it?
In this day and age, why doesn’t someone inform the violators to either stop, remove the threat, or face extraordinary penalties....until someone does, they will continue. It amazes me that some private parties have not threatened violence against them.
My son jumped (from 8.1) all over this upgrade, no problems so far ... I will wait for a while to see how thing pan out (running Windows 7). Having been around Windows since 3.0, I have learned to wait and see, that has saved me many headaches.
Not yet. I was waiting for reports here and other sites I visit. My brother is the pc guru in the family and he says wait. Then this ransomware thing .... also there was a story about wifi password sharing and multimedia stuff not working. I use Vista on one computer and Windows7 on my notebook.
Tagline test.
I’ve installed it on two computers and I’m holding off on my other two. The first two have been major clusters. The computers have slowed down considerably. Almost nothing was migrated over. On one I can’t get programs and website to pin to the start page and on the other I can’t get anything off the start page. It has a nice look, but I don’t think it was ready for primetime. If I can figure out how to go back to Win 8 I will and wait awhile until they get the problems sorted out.
So far, so good. It took about 45 minutes yesterday.
I backed up to a external hard drive first.
Its kinda ugly out of the box but I am tweaking on it already.
Have 2 computers, one Sony, and one HP.
Installed on the HP yesterday (Sony sent notice 2 weeks ago to wait for their drivers).
Download, and Install took 13 hours, but I have crappy DSL used by the cavemen.
Been on Windows 10 unit all day, with zero problems, and pretty high praise so far.
Upgraded from 7 , and I like the interactivity, and increased performance.
Stayed with the classic shell, and all seems to be ok (small trouble finding a couple of things on the new start menu).
Overall Grade A-
I haven't seen much difference from 8.1 but I run it in a regular desktop environment and everything seems to be smoother (like mouse scrolling).
Edge (replaces IE) seems to work which IE didn't in 8.1.
Altogether a pleasant surprise from Microsoft.
Thanks for the headsup, Redangus! I was going to install WIN10 last night but chickened out before the full install .. thank you for sharing your experience!!
Thank you for sharing, Abby!
I installed it yesterday and did some tweaks to suit my tastes. My take: It pretty much mimics Win7. I don’t notice anything horrible about Win10, but I also don’t see why anyone would upgrade either. I’m not going to use the Cortana thing or any other of the new named services. When you do update, choose the custom option and choose to not let Microsoft collect all that information about you. I doubt it will make your life better because the mobile app will probably always stink if you use Android. So if you feel the slightest urge to wait, then wait.
Yeah, that’s pretty much it. :-)
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