From: "David B." <avidB@nomail.afraid.invalid">DavidB@nomail.afraid.invalid>

On 21/02/2017 05:53, Ant wrote:
> David B. <avidB@nomail.afraid.invalid">DavidB@nomail.afraid.invalid> wrote:
>> 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? :-(
>
> Eventually, ransomwares will take over our bodies! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Haha! :-)

I know folk in real life who have had problems with ransomware on their 
Windows machines.

Have you ever encountered anyone having a ransomeware problem on an 
Apple Mac?

-- 
"Do something wonderful, people may imitate it." (Albert Schweitzer)

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