>> Ever heard of CRYPTOWALL ? I think that I got it from looking at >> PDFs on the web while doing some research. [...]
I trust you've now switched PDF viewers to one that doesn't gratuitously execute (attempts at) live content? > Sounds like Cryptolocker. Even the police paid the ransom to get > their data back. If the police needed to even _consider_ doing that, they need to fire whoever decided they didn't need proper backups. (And whoever was responsible for the mistake that got it running there to begin with, either whoever decided to let it run or whoever decided to use tools that would let it run, depending.) /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
