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Virus Hold Computer Files 'Hostage' for $200

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the it'd-be-funnier-if-it-wasn't-scary dept.

dwayner79 sent in a story about a new virus making the rounds- this one is unique because it locks your files and then demands a $200 ransom to get them back. It seems to me that this might leave some sort of tracable money trail. They don't have much information on any particular transmission mechanism, they just talk about web pages giving it up.

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  1. I call hoax by Short+Circuit · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If it were real, we would have heard it from Symantec or McAffee long before a third-world news website.

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  2. Re:It won't get a penny from me... by tchernobog · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Not a really new idea, it's inside Andrew Tanenbaum's "Modern Operating Systems"!
    The virus programmer has to have read the book.

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