The basic rule of internet safety is watching out for the b.y.c.a.k. virus. b.y.c.a.k. = between your chair and keyboard.
So… What is Cryptolocker? Cryptolocker is like all ransomware of the past. In fact it looks just like antivirus 2012 except. Cryptolocker comes right out and says “hey we locked down your file, pay us and we will unlock your file, if you do not pay us, we will delete the password that we have on file for you file and you pretty well screwed forever”.
My website got shut down by my webhost. They told me there was a virus on my website and told me to upload a safe copy of the website..
Well I don’t have a copy of my website. They have a copy of my website.
but. I couldn’t do anything. SO I downloaded the whole website via FTP. and decided to locate the joomla files the webhost said may be compromised.
Yep. Sure enough.
Both virus fakes are bundled together in this bad batch of internet waste today.
Internet Defender was the one virus/Extortionist (Vextortirust?) that kept popping up the most in the beginning.
It seems that one of the viruses that I reported in one of my previous posts, that obtained on my computer at work, has been bit by the Leap Year Virus 2012.
Charlie Sheen Facebook Virus Steals your account and puts a virus in your computer.
What you do is what you have to live with. asking people for advice is a safe bet… Some times..?
