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Originally Posted by Blossom
Oh goodness girl! I'm sorry. I read it's spread through email attachments. I have learned never to open any attachments from any company or anyone. I don't think I would called Microsoft though. I'm not sure what they could do.
What I would do is immediately shut down the PC and use Ubuntu Live CD to mount the drive and copy what files to an external drive that I want to keep. I read as you try to access stuff it keeps encrypting files so the sooner you shut down the better. So once you got what files left you can back up I would then reformat the drive and reinstall everything from scratch.
By using the Live CD the malware can't run while you copy your files as it only works in a Windows Environment. If your laptop is like mine and has no CD drive you can run Ubuntu from a flash drive. I can't tell how many times that Ubuntu has save me from losing files when my hard drive would crash or start to die. I think every person should have a copy of it. It's free too.
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I am going to copy and paste this for future reference. I have never heard of this...thank you for this direction. As for Microsoft and the virus I was watching my screen and it was so utterly heartbreaking watching the files being encrypted by the virus as Microsoft was ineptly trying to do something. It was encrypting so fast. These people who do this have no idea the heartache they reap....they are evil.
Thanks for the advice Blossom.....You are amazing.
