Would you believe?

[mikev]

 yup a good plan  Bizman . i like most just get to confident when browsing the net, and like most think our antivirus and malware will always save us. i sure hope someday they find a way to police the web so that people who do this stuff get what they deserve.

[TequilaChaser]

New Security News Article up today at  http://www.bleepingcomputer.com


http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/teslacrypt-shuts-down-and-releases-master-decryption-key/


[/TeslaCrypt shuts down and Releases Master Decryption Key  5'18/2016  4:00pm

unfortunate that this is not the crypt virus that I caught.......

I , myself normally do back ups of my different OS HD's/SSD's and other pertinent files and information etc.... on a regular basis, sometimes depending on the subject matter 2 or 3 times a week......... for some unknown reason though, I slipped up and had not done my routine back ups of anything since I went to Florida Last October for my Grand Daughter's first Birthday........ all I can say is lessoned learned! ( again for the 2nd time in 21 + years, since the last virus that hit any of my own computers back around 1994/1995??? )

I did not lose as much as I first thought I had, just mainly the pictures and videos  from Lauren's ( my Grand Daughter ) 1st Birthday, Family Reunion pictures/videos, Christmas Pictures and Videos....... all my stuff on the Intel i7-2600k system having to do with FSO/KOTH films and Aces High and AH3 Beta stuff ( pics, films, etc, I had made )

Thank Goodness I had over 62 GB's of music on my smart phone, and had nearly 224 GB's of Music I had copied over for my Dad to his PC's data storage Drive,, of older music.........my phone's 62 GB's worth is all new current stuff I have gotten recently and didn't have copied nowhere else.......

all HD's and SSD's have been scrubbed and reformatted....... just need to install the OS and start over........ thinking I will just stick with 1 OS this time, and forgo any muti-OS Boot setup like I had before........


side note: now that I had time to calm down, and fully diagnose how the dang virus got on my computer to begin with.... I have come to the conclusion that it was already on the computer before I even bothered with uninstalling/updating ESET from ESS8 to ESS9......... when I went to turn the computer on that Friday Morning ( I had turned it off Weds Evening as bad thunderstorms were rolling in ) the computer started up like it normally does, but before the screen could fully load the bios/cmos/DOS boot screen, the computer immediately shut itself down, waited a couple of seconds then restarted............and then proceeded to boot up as normal.......... I have concluded that this is when it loaded/installed the crypt virus..........and since it was already there, no matter what I was going to do with ESET, it would never have shown up any flags!

I only knew something was wrong, when I went to play KOTH in Aces High, and the title music was suddenly playing again, the background AH logo was missing, I couldn't see my mouse, and my normally saved login info was mostly missing, but some of the characters was written/typed in ancsi type of text......


ok.................here's hoping and praying none of the AH Players / AH Community ever run into such a nasty virus, this one will truly make you feel terribly sick!

sincerely,

TC

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I have been a happy Webroot user, since soon 1,5 years.
Before Webroot I was using free product.

[Vulcan]

I have been a happy Webroot user, since soon 1,5 years.
Before Webroot I was using free product.

Yeah I believe webroot is using the next-gen endpoint AV (uses sandboxing type techniques)? Is that right.

The other two clients that do it are Cylance and Carbon Black - but neither are available to consumers (enterprise only). I use cylance and it rocks.