Saw malware

[Marko Verified Posts:101 Threads:27 Reputation 15]

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Me and some friends was talking about this malware crypting thing. It basically encrypts all your files to a .fun extension and asks you to send $20-$200 bitcoin to a certain address, I think it increases each hour you don't pay. After 72 hours passes the program deletes all of your PC files, forever. And if you turn the PC off when it restarts it will delete 1000 random encrypted files. There are only a few ways to stop it, either pay the ransom, you can trick it into giving you the key to turn it off as it is in .net framework so it is possible to open the source and find the key. Or you can mess with your hard drive and add some read only pins so you can copy your hdd to another one. Or you can stop the process via task manager depending on where it hides itself

[Grunge DF Member Posts:357 Threads:30 Reputation 21]

Yeah, this is a type of ransomeware.

[Nix Emerald Member Posts:1,779 Threads:174 Reputation 76]

This sounds pretty brutal if there weren't any loopholes behind it.

[Red Painting the town Red Posts:3,756 Threads:228 Reputation 92]

That's crazy. Cheaper to just buy a new computer lmao.