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Originally Posted by strath44
if you realise that not everyone is that computer savvy then you wouldnt have finished your sentence, what a stupid stupid thing to say.
I clicked on this thread as an elderly neighbour has just been hit by this and looks like he is going to loose a lot of valuable photos, I'm pretty sure he doesnt deserve it.
They are looking for 500 dollars to decrypt is it worth the risk as his files are irreplaceable - digital photos of family etc.?
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Your neighbor is lucky he did not have a hard drive crash. Billions more photos are lost from hard drive failures than anything else. Ransom ware is just another preventable cause of loss of data. I have multiple backups and I still get lazy and have data at risk. It is a constant chore to keep everything backed up.