![]() ![]() You can use this to your advantage as a sort of 'early warning system'. Now, if you're familiar with this, hopefully not first hand, you'll know they drop two files in every folder with encrypted files - INSTALL_TOR.txt and DECRYPT_INSTRUCTION.txt. Because it's encrypting everything it can (not -infecting- everything, just encrypting), it will go out to those shares and do it's thing. ![]() With Cryptolocker, 9 times out of 10 the person seems to also have a link to at least one network share. The computer is isolated and reinstalled or otherwise cleaned up, and you're off again. Generally, if someone gets a virus on their computer it's a pain in the ass but it's not threatening to the company on the whole. I thought I'd share with you what steps I've taken to alert me to a likely Cryptolocker infection. ![]()
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