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Old 13-02-2015, 09:22 AM
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Tandum (Robin)
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Now that's a nasty email

Just a heads up on an email that seems to doing the rounds. It pretends to be a speeding violation from the police and looks very official but if you open the attachment, it encrypts the majority of your data files.

They then demand about $600 for the decryption key.

I've seen three machines since Xmas that have been encrypted with a fourth showing up on Saturday. This 4th box is the only guy who has his machine doing backups, I had to reinstall all the others and didn't recover anything. I'm hoping it hasn't encrypted his backup files.

It seems to be a copycat of the cryptolocker virus that was around a year or so ago, but the encrypter they've written isn't the best so the decrypter don't work properly.

Please think before opening, how did they get my email address
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