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Re: Why do they say 'disconnect your backup from your PC' when d

February 20, 2017
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From: Shadow <Sh@dow.br>

On Sun, 19 Feb 2017 12:18:28 -0800 (PST), RayLopez99
<raylopez88@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Saturday, February 18, 2017 at 5:08:27 PM UTC-5, Wolf K wrote:
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>> Easy: Write the ransomware to attack all partitions ("drives".
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>OK thanks Wolf K.  So I suppose ransom-ware will freeze your entire system,
all partitions, even USB sticks and external drives that happen to be connected
 to the infected PC at the time of the attack, immediately? 

	You forgot network drives, and/aka "the cloud". If you have
access to it, the trojan does too.
	Only thing safe is a read-only like a DVD or Blu-Ray backup.
Assuming you "closed" the disk. Though in theory even they could be
overwritten.
	[]'s
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