Ransomware

You've heard of malware, spyware, spamware, etc. Move over, boys, there's a new ware in town: ransomware.

This evil code encrypts the contents of your computer with its own (very) large key, and then offers you the chance to get your data back by paying a fee.

Kaspersky Lab said last week that it detected a new version of the ransomware type of Gpcode Virus that essentially holds your data hostage until you pay up. It encrypts files on the hard drive using an RSA algorithm with a 1024-bit key and leaves a message that advises the victim to buy a decryptor and provides an e-mail address to contact.

more here and here.

That would seriously piss me off. I wonder if it affects Apples?

No, only oranges. ;)

What about tomato's. They are a fruit.

Back everything up. If they encrypt your sh!t, email them that they can fvck off.

No Merc, the tomato's have salmonella

As technology evolves, so does its problems. This sounds terrible, I was infected with vundoware and virtumonde.dll last month which horribly off and on made my firefox unable to open up anything google, yahoo and other various big name sites. I have no idea what the problem is, but to fix it I had to run all of my antimalware which took like an hour, each time.
Thankfully it no longer seems to be infected...

classicman;462070 wrote:

No Merc, the tomato's have salmonella

Damm, they are infected as well. So if I eat them will one of these websites take control of my body and ransom me back to my wife???

I got news for them, she ain't paying. :D