How are you expected to pay the ransom? Bitcoins?
How are you expected to pay the ransom? Bitcoins?
laces are too loose wrote:
As to viruses, that may be the only slight advantage with linux.
Posted the person with no Linux experience.
How much do you get for posting this made-up stuff? I can do it in my sleep far better than you and the other troll.
I don't know. I don't think that there is a restore function in Dropbox.
If your programs still work, then Dropbox might upload the encrypted files, but it would take several minutes hundreds of files. You could...
Shut off internet access. Then, most of your files would be okay in the cloud.
Shut off internet access and boot up a computer that was not online when the virus loaded. Your files should not be changed on this laptop. Once you loaded them to a USB drive, you could log in to Dropbox to see if the files were there.
If you're going to quote me use everything I wrote. Because of your apparent myopia I'll explain again: Your computer regardless of os can get borked from hardware failure and software failure of which viruses are part of.
Most home users also run as admin rather than user. Enterprise tends to run as user. Linux runs as user by default. DON'T RUN AS ROOT is clearly stated by the distro's themselves or "bad" things may happen. The most important "virus" protection is between the chair and the keyboard.
As to me, my current stable includes:
-an iOS device
-Android tablet
-PC's flucuates between 3 and 5 or more
-A MX-16 live usb! I've been testing or trying distros and bsd's for the last ten years. I've occasionally duel booted, but it's easier to play around with a live usb with persistence. I, ME can't really use linux as a daily machine. I've got too many programs that WILL NOT run or are available in linux, including wine, virtualization.
Your evangelical like worship of the penguin is getting old. Every thread that deals with computer problems has you saying the same thing since you don't read the question. Tomorrow I could ask about graphic cards for autocad and you would opin in at some point and say get Linux Mint. If you actually have any real experience in the wider ecosystem use it to try and HELP the current op and others with their current dilemma then use it, otherwise keep quiet.. Good Bye.
fisky wrote:
I'd add that backup is free and automatic. There's no reason to not set up an automatic backup system.
Other than it takes up lots of storage space?
I haven't used windows since 2004 and as a result I'm smarter than everyone and also type very fast.
Linux is a great system.
Until you actually need to get work done.
Dude your such a zealot, sort of like A Duck was when posting under that name,........mmmmmm. You are about as well liked and respected as he was too.
laces are too loose wrote:
If you're going to quote me use everything I wrote. Because of your apparent myopia I'll explain again: Your computer regardless of os can get borked from hardware failure and software failure of which viruses are part of.
Most home users also run as admin rather than user. Enterprise tends to run as user. Linux runs as user by default. DON'T RUN AS ROOT is clearly stated by the distro's themselves or "bad" things may happen. The most important "virus" protection is between the chair and the keyboard.
As to me, my current stable includes:
-an iOS device
-Android tablet
-PC's flucuates between 3 and 5 or more
-A MX-16 live usb! I've been testing or trying distros and bsd's for the last ten years. I've occasionally duel booted, but it's easier to play around with a live usb with persistence. I, ME can't really use linux as a daily machine. I've got too many programs that WILL NOT run or are available in linux, including wine, virtualization.
Your evangelical like worship of the penguin is getting old. Every thread that deals with computer problems has you saying the same thing since you don't read the question. Tomorrow I could ask about graphic cards for autocad and you would opin in at some point and say get Linux Mint. If you actually have any real experience in the wider ecosystem use it to try and HELP the current op and others with their current dilemma then use it, otherwise keep quiet.. Good Bye.
Best post in the thread.
Merritt is on NPP wrote:
laces are too loose wrote:Rant Whine Rant Whine Cry Whine Rant Whine Weep.
Best post in the thread.
+1
Yeah, everyone logs into Windows as admin user, surfs the internet, destroys their computer, then blames Windows.
RESTRICTED user, people. You don't need to be an admin all the time.
I can tell you I'm a liar, Bill Gates, because Windows crashes all the time due to instability and Windows not being able to recover. This happens to me all the time too but I still love Windows, and try to tell everyone that I know.
P.S. I routinely drive on the wrong side of the road.
Bad Wigins wrote:
fisky wrote:I'd add that backup is free and automatic. There's no reason to not set up an automatic backup system.
Other than it takes up lots of storage space?
Sorry, Bad, I meant cloud storage. Dropbox provides 5GB of free storage. Dropbox Pro is, I think, 100GB for $99/year.
laces are too loose wrote:
Your evangelical like worship of the penguin is getting old. Every thread that deals with computer problems has you saying the same thing since you don't read the question. Tomorrow I could ask about graphic cards for autocad and you would opin in at some point and say get Linux Mint. If you actually have any real experience in the wider ecosystem use it to try and HELP the current op and others with their current dilemma then use it, otherwise keep quiet.. Good Bye.
The same ding dong highjacks every ketogenic diet thread saying it's only purpose is to avoid drug detection.
Cloud storage turns your data over to the NSA
laces are too loose wrote: Your computer regardless of os can get borked from hardware failure and software failure of which viruses are part of.
What happened? I thought Linux distros were bad? Now you to claim that viruses like OP's work everywhere equally. Which, they don't.
How do I get a job trolling for Microsoft? I'd easily do better than you.
Bad Wigins wrote:
Cloud storage turns your data over to the NSA
Insecure erase. You cannot erase your personal data forever.
Google has created some crazy sniffing tools. If they find too many "bad" words they will turn you in to the authorities. Drugs, crime, kiddie porn, and such. One thing I read Google can do is image search of email and cloud uploads. If an image search info turns bad things Google will forward it to the authorities.
Google is part of the Big Brother network.
I was going to respond to the subject at hand but decided against it. I'm not going to get into a pissing contest with a bitter old man (your Mike Muir posts narrowed down your age). I did a brief archive search and almost without fail a post by you is a snarky, bitter and immature response. Remember that thread a few months back that essentially amounted to saying you are a do**heb*g! People here don't like you responses. It's not necessarily what you say but how you say it. Are you currently training the next generation of a$$h@@ls that are in jh and hs?
To the OP. Some of us are still out here to provide legitimate help if it's needed. Other than saying you saved a file or two to the cloud haven't heard much from you since you were punked.
I forgive you for being young and acting like you know something when you really don't.
Maybe spin up a Linux distribution? With virtual machines it's easy. Oracle's virtualbox will get you started nicely.
pop_pop!_v2.2.1 wrote:
I forgive you for being young and acting like you know something when you really don't.
Maybe spin up a Linux distribution? With virtual machines it's easy. Oracle's virtualbox will get you started nicely.
And then what? People don't like Linux because there are no apps for it other than coding. Even coders don't make apps for Linux.