Jean-Paul Louis noted:

> Interesting article about a new threat on the web.=20
> Noone is safe from that.

Bob Blick responded:

>Shared drives on a network are probably at risk as well.
>Sounds like surfing the web with a phone or tablet is the right way to
live. No web browsing with your development machine!

Shared drives are definitely at risk. This happened to one of my customers
and it encrypted files on all shared drives seen, including some SAMBA
shares from a Linux machine. The particular malware he encountered only hit
shares that were mounted to drive letters, not unlettered (ie: UNC only)
shares.

You can also (relatively) safely do your surfing from within a virtual
machine. That has the advantage that it is easy to copy and paste desired
downloaded files from the VM to your 'real' machine.

-- Bob Ammerman
RAm Systems



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