dbarrow
06-03-2006, 09:02 AM
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/50881.html
By Jennifer LeClaire
TechNewsWorld
06/02/06 11:10 AM PT
"Today, most of the viruses and Trojan horses we see are being written with the intention of making money, and we wouldn't be surprised to see much more ransomware being written in the future," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos. ...
...The Troj/Arhiveus-A Trojan horse (also known as MayAlert) scoops up files in innocent users' "My Documents" folder and creates a file called EncryptedFiles.als. When users try to access their files they are directed to a file containing instructions on how to recover the data. ...
By Jennifer LeClaire
TechNewsWorld
06/02/06 11:10 AM PT
"Today, most of the viruses and Trojan horses we see are being written with the intention of making money, and we wouldn't be surprised to see much more ransomware being written in the future," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos. ...
...The Troj/Arhiveus-A Trojan horse (also known as MayAlert) scoops up files in innocent users' "My Documents" folder and creates a file called EncryptedFiles.als. When users try to access their files they are directed to a file containing instructions on how to recover the data. ...