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pooya87

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Quote from: Bit_Happy on May 20, 2017, 09:04:40 PM

Was there a way to fight back and clean it up without paying?

a little google search tells me what OP is talking about is called AIDS Trojan based on the screenshot and yes there was a cure for it!
"AIDSOUT was a reliable removal program for the Trojan and the CLEARAID program recovered encrypted plaintext after the Trojan triggered. CLEARAID automatically reversed the encryption without having to contact the extortionist."
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIDS_(Trojan_horse)

Bit_Happy

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A Great Time to Start Something!

Was there a way to fight back and clean it up without paying?

Mike Mayor

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When people do stuff like that it makes me laugh. It's like blaming drugs for bad behavior or blaming video games for things that are really the responsibility of the individual. Simply a scapegoat. Obviously Bitcoin would be used. It's the easiest way to pay. I think most people have a silly way of thinking where they will associate something as bad just because it's been placed along side it.

Thanks for getting those screenshots that's so interesting. I'm shocked people actually pay up. As long as that happens these randsomware viruses will exist.

BillyBobZorton

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Left: The harmless-seeming app install screen. / Right: The ransomware message that threatened users a few days later.

This caught my attention the other day. It's funny how Ransomware has existed for so much time, dating back to DOS days. And they used a Panama offshores account of course.

Those blaming bitcoin for the invention of all evil ransomware programs should do some research.

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