How do you let this happen to you in 2017?

How do you let this happen to you in 2017?

I don't care. I just restore from backups.

>a thread died for this old topic

Because getting cryptolocker'd isn't a question of if - only a question of when.

did you enjoy free-candy-crush-coins-hack.apk.exe ?

Normies dont know how to use computers
more news at 7

Being fucked up the ass isn't a question of if - only a question when.

I actually haven't been infected to date. I'm just pointing out that a good redundant backup makes ransomware ineffective.

How do you even get this? I understood something about it exploiting SMB and shit, but how does it get to the end-users PC in the first place?

t. dumb sheltered safe Linux weenie

If only we made encryption illegal, this never would've happened

If only we made extortion illegal.. . . .

If only we banned hard drives bigger than 128gb and made everyone store everything on the cloud

What's keeping me from running a few dozen of those in a storage pool?

>make one-time pad to send sekrit notes to friends
>get 20 years
>responding to sarcasm
>wtf am I doing

Oy Vey don't get carried away there

1 per customer goy

Brilliant! If only we had more politicians like this.

>implying that's any better

Being able to recover from sabotage is indeed multiple orders of magnitude better than assuming it cannot happen because you enabled auto updates and still get it in the ass eventually.

I ask myself that all the time user.

some shit with emails

>when you go to back up your data just in case and realize you have no data worth backing up

Is there pictures like this? I want to prank someone who's afraid of it so much he will flip out when he sees it
>but the timer will be frozen user
He won't even notice

>be retarded (Like 95% of society)
>be tricked by someone smarter than you
that's how

b-but what about classic porn from 80's ?
they have music
A FUCKING MUSIC
this is something worth a backup

So a shitton of government organizations and massive private companies are just full of idiot employees who just open phishing emails on company computers?

Fuck me dead, this planet is lost.

you can't encrypt a vhs tape

you can google it user

just because you know how to (let's say) print advanced electronic devices that doesn't mean you are a genius
you just have knowledge on ONE field
>Fuck me dead, this planet is lost.
Don't worry there is a smiling face up in the sky that surely will take care of it :P

even if you transfer it's content to a PC ??
besides i know how to encrypt my VHS tapes
>locks safe
;P

You'd think that but you'd be wrong.