You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay us $300 in Bitcoins

Re:You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay u... by pavel_lishin on Thursday October 17, 2013 @05:25PM (#6568229)

> Educating users to stop running random programs in zip files attached to emails, is apparently impossible.

Imagine something just like the malware we're discussing, but instead of a 72 hour timer, it's a 4 hour timer - and at the end, it pops up a "gotcha! just kidding. but if this were real malware, you would have either lost hundreds of dollars, or all your documents. Don't open attachments like me."

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Re:You’re infected—if you want to see your data again, pay u... by teddyh on Friday October 18, 2013 @02:37AM (#6570102)

That wouldn’t work. People subjected to this would:

1. Immediately kill the messenger, and

2. Continue to open executable mail attachments, because nothing bad has ever happened that didn’t work itself out in the end.

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