Rather than attempt to reinvent this wheel here, I will offer my general observations and recommendations, followed by a link to a blog post that I believe does an excellent job of presenting the facts about CryptoLocker.

There has also been a lot of misinformation and bad advice on the subject from various sources, even some that would normally be considered reputable. But CryptoLocker is a much more sophisticated variant of this attack.Īll of the major anti-virus software vendors are aware of CryptoLocker, and many have written about it. I wrote about this type of malware in my book, Bug-Free Computing: Stop Viruses, Squash Worms, and Smash Trojan Horses, original Copyright 2005.

This malware, known as CryptoLocker, is a form of 'ransomware,' a program that holds the user's data files hostage until that user pays to have those files released. One of the most widespread pieces of malware making the rounds these days is an updated version of a payload that first appeared quite a few years ago.

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