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To: Mycroft Holmes

The computers affected by Cryptolocker at this college computer laboratory were Linux systems. I asked whether or not they were running WINE or anything like it, and the answer was no.


112 posted on 12/29/2013 6:55:05 AM PST by WhiskeyX ( provides a system for registering complaints about unfair broadcasters and the ability to request a)
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To: WhiskeyX
According to the writeups at CERT and BleepingComputer this is a windows only infection. BleepingComputer goes into excruciating detail on this. This does not infect Linux Boxen, period, end of story.

I have read of an imitator that does run on Mac that looks like Cryptolocker but doesn't actually encrypt the files. This is written in Java so it could also infect Linux if you were to be su when it arrived. Shouldn't routinely be the superuser. Not prudent.

113 posted on 12/29/2013 7:02:12 AM PST by Mycroft Holmes (<= Mash name for HTML Xampp PHP C JavaScript primer. Programming for everyone.)
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