Posted by rview_ on October 25, 2014 at 04:53:39 from (199.47.65.57):
In Reply to: Got my computor back posted by 37Chief on October 24, 2014 at 08:41:11:
Had a few minutes this morning to look around, no wonder nobody got Cryptolocker around here, they stopped it a few months ago. They broke down the network and got all the keys, so people could get their data back for free.
There is a new one around that did a similar thing, so maybe that is what this one was. "CryptoWall". New infections of that have pretty much stopped according to the quick reading I did, around October 18th, but they say it will continue spreading by the other means. It infected banner ad advertisers (as well as email attachments for a while), so sites that displayed a banner ad that was infected, if the computer had a vulnerable browser, that's how it spread. All infected advertisers were stopped, which is why it stopped spreading that way.
So basically update your system and browser, don't use XP, avoid Internet Explorer (just because), install Adblock and noscript (which will stop many of the banner ads), disable Java as well as the other suggestions I and others had. Also, I knew and forgot to mention before, it does affect any connected drive, like external hard drives, so data on them would also be lost. Only safe things would be optical media that can't be rewritten on, and online backup that lets people restore previous versions (because if the files were locked on the computer, the locked files would automatically be updated on the backup service). Using Linux would also stop the risk for this type of thing (for free), as mentioned above, but I know that's not an option for a lot of you.
Some more details here and sites that displayed the bad advertising. The sites weren't infected, just the ads. http://www.proofpoint.com/threatinsight/posts/malware-in-ad-networks-infects-visitors-and-jeopardizes-brands.php
This post was edited by rview_ at 04:57:14 10/25/14.
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