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Tuesday’s massive ransomware outbreak was, in fact, something much worse
ArsTechnica ^ | 6/29/2017 | DAN GOODIN

Posted on 06/28/2017 9:51:49 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

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To: jospehm20

“Yep. I back mine up to an external every day.”

If your external is connected to your machine, it gets ransomed as well.


61 posted on 06/29/2017 7:32:44 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: AppyPappy

If my machine gets ransomed, I won’t connect it.


62 posted on 06/29/2017 7:39:42 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: jospehm20

I mean you have to disconnect it after every backup


63 posted on 06/29/2017 7:41:30 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: AppyPappy

Yes. It is only connected a few minutes for the backup. I also shut the machine down every night.


64 posted on 06/29/2017 8:49:40 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I suspect our own NSA-CIA with one of their cyber-children having been developed by contractors and it “escaped”.


65 posted on 06/29/2017 9:03:56 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: AMiller

Its a little more complicated than that.

What it would require is for me to go into some sports events and tag individual photos for players or teams. Then create the index that would give me “John Jones” from “UConn basketball.”

For the events where I was shooting future NBA stars, I did do that. I can pull up images of Kevin Durant from when he was 17 years old among other NBA players.

I have all of the folders named for easy access. But when some folders have 1500-2000 photos, getting them loaded up and moved back onto a faster system can be tedious.


66 posted on 06/29/2017 9:23:02 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: Texas Fossil

If you use Firefox (mine’s Linux version, Iceweasel) there is a plugin called No Script. I’ve used it for several years.

No Script is the best thing since sliced bread. I use it and cookie monster; no popups, almost no ads, no virus and no tracking.


67 posted on 06/29/2017 12:51:31 PM PDT by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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The great part, you can allow Java scripts for a single account at whatever level you want. I use the minimal allowable for the specific site.

Very good program.


68 posted on 06/29/2017 1:54:58 PM PDT by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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To: Ancesthntr
We cooperated with them to take the Golden Triangle opium trade away from the French, too, and that was years before we sent anyone except Green Beret advisers to SVN. Now let me think, Vietnam falls, and the very next year our first aid starts to Afghanistan opponents of the secular government (the jolly "Mu ja Ha deen" who just happen to be the same people who eventually formed the Taliban) along with the mob making contacts with the opium dealers there.

The Taliban put a halt to the opium trade once the Soviets were out and, badda bing, badda boom, they're our enemies.

It's easy to understand that when agencies and departments within the government get used to having billions of dollars at their disposal that they don't have to rely on the legitimate government to give them that they'll act accordingly.

What's that old saying, "You don't change them, they change you" or something like that?

69 posted on 06/29/2017 3:27:33 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: mad_as_he$$
So how does one know this is safe?

It's a batch file, which means it is basically a text file. You can view its contents in a text editor such as Windows Notepad, though you may lose paragraph formatting.

I've looked at it. There's nothing fishy in there, at least at the time I posted this.

All this little program does is to create a file, "perfc", in the Windows folder, and make the file read-only.

If you still don't want to run that batch file, you can accomplish the same thing by opening an administrator command prompt and entering the following two command lines:

echo Petya vaccination file - Do not remove. > C:\Windows\perfc
attrib +R C:\Windows\perfc

Just copy and paste one line at a time into the window, then hit Enter. If you don't see an error message, the command probably worked.

If you don't know how to start an administrator command prompt, that information is easy to find in an Internet search.

Use Windows Explorer/File Explorer to verify that the new file "perfc" has been created in the Windows folder. Right click the file to verify that it is read-only.

70 posted on 06/29/2017 5:27:46 PM PDT by TChad
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Right click the file to verify that it is read-only.

Should be: Right click the file and select Properties to verify that it is read-only.

71 posted on 06/29/2017 5:31:58 PM PDT by TChad
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To: TChad

Thank you.


72 posted on 06/30/2017 2:27:52 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Not my circus. Not my monkeys.)
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To: AMiller

“. I also have a program that views all email in non-HTML mode so I can delete anything questionable before loading my mail program”

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Please reveal the name and operating system needed for this non-HTML program you cite. I am going to be updating my system soon.


73 posted on 07/02/2017 4:41:29 AM PDT by AFPhys ((Liberalism is what Smart looks like to Stupid people - &reg; - Mia of KC. Rush - 1:50-8/21/15))
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