Posted by ke8wo on February 08, 2019 at 16:05:55 from (24.166.219.223):
In Reply to: Ransomeware? posted by Bret4207 on February 08, 2019 at 06:40:42:
My church's primary PC was infected with a ransomware a few months ago. The crook left an email and demanded something like $10,000 in bitcoins. All of the data files on the pc were encrypted. I emailed and said we're a small church and no way we could pay that. At the same time I took the pc to a local PC shop who had experience with this ... they began running a scan on the hard drive to see if they could salvage any of the data files. The crook emailed back that the ransom was now $5,000, was their final offer and how soon could we pay. I delayed my response while the PC scan was in progress and while I assessed the status of the backup's of our Quickbooks data file and our Servant Keeper data file. Both of these were critical apps on the PC and held more than a decade of church data each. After a few days, I determined the backup data files were reasomably current and usable. Also, after several days of scanning the pc's hard drive, the conclusion was that no data was recoverable. So, we decided to tell the crook to take a hike. We bought a new laptop pc (the infected pc was old and used Windows 7) and downloaded and reinstalled QuickBooks, Servant Keeper and their data files. So after about ten days we were back into operation with minimal data loss. The new pc is using the Windows Defender and the Malwarebytes combo to head this off in the future. We also set up the iDrive automatic data file backup app to the 'cloud' to ensure all data files are 100% backed up. We never did know how we 'caught' the ransomware ... likely via an email or a visit to a web site. I've learned that the ransomware virus's these days are more likely to encrypt the data files as we experienced. So be careful .. its dangerous out there ....
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