On 18 September 2015 at 18:49, Fred Cisin <ci...@xenosoft.com> wrote: > Absolutely. > I now think that it was a "We're Adobe, click here to update Flash Player" > or maybe "Java update"
I can see how one of those, done well, might fool most of us. I am not one of those daredevil ascetics who runs Windows without anti-malware but with no Flash, Java, etc. -- crap like that is the reason I run Windows. I won't let MS clients connect to the Internet on my own machines though -- no MS chat client, email, browser, music player, video player, _anything_. All disabled or removed and replaced with FOSS alternatives. Sadly, this isn't really practical in business. > But, I never got my winnings from the Elbonian Lottery. It would have been all muddy anyway. > It got everything in that computer, and started on the backup drive that was > currently connected. I now realize the importance of diconnecting the > backup drive promptly. D'uh! Yes, and thank you for the salutory lesson! > But, it got bogged down in the first directory of the backup drive, and > hadn't moved on to the other directories by the time it started extortion of > the computer! Tht directory was full of zillions of files, mostly photos > copied from my friend's computer after he died. He saved me from beyond the > grave! And, I still have his machine to make another copy of those. Small blessings, I guess. > Hmmm. 30 years ago, I stepped on the DIRectory of a floppy, and created a > subdirectory that had a subdirectory that was its parent directory. It > actually worked well enough to prevent CHKDSK /V from being able to walk the > DIRectory tree (kept trying to follow subdirectories back onto themselves). > I wonder if that would work on this? (until they notice, and change their > sequence). Also created files named "*.*" and "????????.???", multiple > entries for same file in DIRectory, etc. Niiiiiiiice... -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Cell/Mobiles: +44 7939-087884 (UK) • +420 702 829 053 (ČR)
