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Message   DavidB    All   Re: Why do they say 'disconnect your backup from your PC' when   February 20, 2017
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From: "David B." <avidB@nomail.afraid.invalid">DavidB@nomail.afraid.invalid>

On 20/02/2017 16:13, Shadow wrote:
> 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:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Easy: Write the ransomware to attack all partitions ("drives";).
>>>
>>>
>>
>> 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

Frightening, isn't it? :-(

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