<p dir="ltr">Sorry you had such an awful time.<br>
Thank you for the alert! Google search produced several ways to recover files without paying thanks to anti hackers. I hope you will be able to get money back.<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 16, 2015 12:47 AM, "Trevor Attenberg via Ct-nfb" <<a href="mailto:ct-nfb@nfbnet.org">ct-nfb@nfbnet.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Hi guys,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I want to warn you guys--I just got through a week without my computer due to something called Crypto-Blocker—I think. It probably got on my computer through a corrupted PDF attachment from someone I know. Anyhow, It encrypted all of my files and forced me to pay a ransom in order to get them back. This drained me of a lot of money; but since I needed those files, there was nothing I could do but pay up. No one knows how to cure the virus, save for the people that made it and administer the money exchange, which was in bit coins. They are probably using all the millions of dollars they made from their many victims in order to buy coke and rhino horn from Silk Road. So lesson learned; be sure to back up your files frequently on something you can access absent your computer; and make all your important computer updates. My computer is a PC, and I’m not clear if this bug is just as friendly with Macs, but certainly it is wise to take these precautions no matter what your device is. I don’t think you want this unless you are in cahoots with these guys, and I don’t think you are.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Best,<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Trevor<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div>
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