I am just sick to my stomach today and I have a tension headache on top of that. Why? Computer virus! That's right the new strain of the Locky ransomware virus called Zepto. Most of the company files have been backed up so the worst case is that we have lost the last 3 months of saved files. Sadly my external drive was connected at the time of infection and all my documents and photos for the last 11 years have also been encrypted. My photos since 2005, I am just sick! I don't know what we are planning to do at this point but my hope is that the company chooses to either have a recovery company come in a decrypt the files or pay the ransom for the decryption key. I will be very sad if they choose not to go one of those routes, so pray people, PRAY!
I gets so angry when I think about the people who do these types of things and did I mention the ransom fee? $1900 for the description key! They should be paying me for damages and time! There has got to be a better way to inform the public of these vicious attacks and a better way to track theses bottom feeders. Like any virus these are continuously changing and even if you keep your virus software up to date there is no guarantee that they will identify before it is too late, as is what has happened to me. I have both Norton and Malwarebyte/anti-malware software on mine.
Needless to say having prints would have been good. 😢
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