Cough up

By Anonymous - 19/03/2016 12:30 - United States

Today, my roommate used my PC without asking. Long story short, it's now infected with ransomware. The dissertation I've been working on for months is now encrypted, along with all the backups on my second hard drive. Now I have to pay the hackers $1,500 to get the decryption key. FML
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King0fgames 18

Have your roommate pay the ransom, that is incredibly stupid. Hopefully you can find a way to track down those assholes.

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Kalver92 16

That really sucks for you, but there is password protection for a reason. To keep unauthorized people especially family and room mates from using your computer without asking.

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9a_1z 12

I'd think twice about paying, you'll be funding more attacks and who knows what else. $1500 is a large amount of money to pay for a dissertation, I know college assignments usually come with disclaimers about computer errors being no excuse for a late hand-in but they may be lenient here. Are you sure you haven't printed a draft or emailed it to someone to check? When I was writing my dissertation copies of it ended up everywhere. If you do pay and your files get decrypted I'd suggest making sure there isn't any extra malware lurking on there.

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Tomryan279 10

Why don't you have a password on your computer and make your roommate pay the $1500.00

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Seeya55 31

Yeah don't pay. You'll be giving them even more of your info! Find a shop to get it fixed if you don't have the time to google/forum self-fix it yourself. Next, Hard Drive Back-ups are great, but since cloud storage came out (Even with free Google Drive) that should have been backed up to a remote server as well as HDD's!

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pdunlap76 1

You don't know how ransom ware works, there is no fixing it. There is one key in the world and they have it. And you don't give them more info, they only take bitcoins for payment. You either pay or go to a backup. There is no other option.

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Baron_Kaz 15

Just call Microsoft support and have it unlocked for free. No big deal. And kick the room mate.

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mjrhymz9 5

Plot twist. Your room mate is the hacker

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FrozenPhiber 9

Download Combofix and Malware AntiMalware. Install. Restart in safe mode and run both apps. That should cure what ails you without having to pay. I've fixed many a machine with ransomware on it.

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bronz 15

I've been there done that with that online computer hacking stuff. You could easily go online and find a Decrypter for pretty cheap and do it that way. Those kids on there that have control of your computer can't do anything you could do, it's just knowledge they have over you in this situation. Might be your friend that put it there himself and is just trying to get money out of you but I can't say anything on that. All I can say the only people that do this stuff are kids so you could scare them back with a little bit of that knowledge.

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tyberious 1

There is no way to decrypt those. They are public/private key decrypted. Basically it's a 1 in 99999999999 chance to get the right decryption key or pay the money OR read my other comment on repair :)

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bronz 15

Private message me and I could help you out.

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