Hi Darragh,
What did you do to clean it? Did you use GRML? Did you pop the disc into an enclosure and clean it on a Windows Box?
Cheers,
Barry.
-----Original Message-----
From: Blind-sysadmins [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Darragh OHeiligh
Sent: 09 November 2012 13:00
To: Blind sysadmins list
Cc: Blind-sysadmins
Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] FBI ransomware?
these infections seem to be specific to the region. In the US, their FBI,
in England, their the police, over here in Ireland their the gards.
I saw a computer infected with this varient on Monday. It kept getting to
the BSOD and crapping out.
This happened in Safe mode as well.
Took me ages to clean it up. Even then, it's only working for a while
until the person decides if it's worth paying me to rebuild it.
Seems like it's nasty enough.
Regards
Darragh Ó Héiligh
Fujitsu
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From: David Mehler