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Recent cyber attack is on the loose!
Alright everyone listen up here,right now the machines are getting hacked for ransom for unable to use the PC&other machines,this is a serious important message to all of you that care about your life with your PC&other important things,since I am typing this from the the web news for myself so,I am telling you should update your PC with the high level of protection,we can't let this happen to our lives,we want to stay alive for the bright future;try to share this info if you want to stay connected so no one will suffer! Be safe around you no matter what alright? This is all I can say like a person...
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Seriously though what did I read?
the virus is self spreading, unlike ransomware of the past though that required the user to launch an application to make it spread, thing spreads on its own
From what I've found it's stayed relatively self-contained in those zones. It isn't outside the realm of possibility that it has spread outside those areas, but there really wouldn't be much point in the hackers hitting personal computers of normal people rather than big-targets with big wallets.
ransomware can attack any computer if your not careful and anyone can be a target. some people that don't have a lot of technical computer skills may be unprepared and easy targets for ransomware to hold their computer hostage to try to get money. it is important to be careful what you click on and keep a computer clean. superantispyware is a good free program to help get rid of unwanted spyware programs http://www.superantispyware.com/
For other geeking software purposes, CCleaner from Piriform, Glary Utilities, MemTurbo, Duplicate Cleaner from DigitalVolcano Software, just to name a few. I actually have a fairly large list of useful software programs that I've discovered, tested, used, approve, but we'll just leave it at this list for now in terms of keeping your systems relatively clean and optimised.
Of course, but they are not usually targets is what I am saying. The data is hardly worth bargaining for in most cases, and most people do not have the will or the money. If they had something like financial information, they could just as easily back stab you as one could call said companies to cancel transactions; especially since you cannot just ransom every digital record of said financial information.
That being said, it seems to be a mostly automated process in spread and infection, so the effort per attempt seems minimal when you can go after anyone.
You seem to be very rude and negative person. Almost in every post i can sense that from you.
hit the cog looking thing
go to updates
hit windows updates
hit search for updates
also send me a pm if you want to thank me (i take paypals huehuehuehue) c:
btw this thing can hit anyone because the NSA are a bunch of cucks and don't report vulnerabilities to microsoft like a sane person would
also lol @ the responses in this thread
Sorry you see me that way, but the OP looks like gibberish it doesn't state what is going on, and the lack of spaces after punctuation is kind of atrocious to read. I'm not some grammar nutcase who jumps over people, or even mind an occasional misspelling or two, but the subject is hazy at best, and for someone that doesn't have time to look at the lazily done over sensationalized churnalism on TV.
In all truth this reads more like one of those spam malware E-mails scammers like to send out. I'm sorry if English isn't his native language, but I've had conversations with many people which this was the case, and had no problem understanding them.
Now reading some of the replies (seriously how people deciphered that is beyond me maybe I'm too old) I see the issue. As for self spreading malware unless your PC is connected straight to the cable modem with no router in between the 2 chances are low that you will get this as a properly configured router will not let the traffic through.
I've seen similar in the 2000's, and have had my own private network infected by one that required no interaction to infect when I ran a windows 2000 PC as a router(yes bad idea, but back then routers were expensive this is also why I said it is a bad idea
The ransom ware part is the only real new spin on the same old shtick.
FWIW as someone that currently works in the health field, and have seen some of the atrocities of IT they commit it wouldn't surprise me if they were running unpatched versions of windows 98/ME/2000.\
Side note just looked into on a tech news site it seems this is being overblown as it seems according to security researchers the Uiwix ransom ware isn't even a worm, and has to manually exploited... So unless you are rich(as you won't be a target), and have your PC on the internet without any firewall blocking SMB you can get hit
Edit: Seems there is another one called wannacrypt running around accessing port 445 on windows PC's again a router would stop that pretty easily unless you purposely have port 445 forwarded to a PC of yours...