I am getting this second hand, but a staff employee was searching for hotel rooms and apparently clicked a malware embedded link on a webpage, not as an email attachment. It has infected a shared drive so the potential for harm is huge
 
Our staff has been working feverishly restoring backups from yesterday, so they will lose anything they did since yesterday, but hopefully eradicate  the  malware.
 
I will check back and see if they tar and feather the employee.
 
Heres the warning it was NOT an attachment, it was a webpage,, nothing is safe any more

Wow.....what a real pain to go through all that......I'm surprised a software didn't catch it and quarantine it,

run a script-blocker browser add-in like NoScript - you have to white list sites, but it doesn't take long
hth

Lots of good advice is available about how to be safe on the internet. Most of it is how to avoid doing stupid stuff. But if the major banks, the defense department and the CIA cannot protect their systems, avoiding stupidity is no guarantee of security. 

 
A nurse I know told me her hospital was victimized a few weeks back.  I think it might be happening more than is publicized. 
 
Here's the story:
 
A Hollywood hospital whose computer systems were locked up by ransomware earlier this month (original story below) has paid $17,000 in bitcoins to regain access to its data. It’s believed the hackers had originally demanded $3.4 million from the Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles, but the hospital said Wednesday that any reports suggesting it paid that amount are false.
Commenting on the decision to hand over $17,000, Allen Stefanek, president of the medical center, said in a release, “The malware locks systems by encrypting files and demanding ransom to obtain the decryption key. The quickest and most efficient way to restore our systems and administrative functions was to pay the ransom and obtain the decryption key. In the best interest of restoring normal operations, we did this.”
 
Read more: http://www.digitaltrends....-attack/#ixzz42RZ3eWaV

What's next?
 
The FSF?
 
They'll have to pay us to give it back.

This is really spooky stuff! I get e-mails from people I know telling me to hit this link to get whatever. I don't do it and everything I ask the friend about the e-mails they know nothing about it. When I tried to download Windows 10 I was hijacked and had no idea it was happening. When my PC starts running sluggish I call up task manager and find a 2nd user. I log off ASAP! I don't do much on the internet anymore 

Where's Bill?

bapu
Where's Bill?

Bill?  Who's Bill? 

I knew it! chronic amnesia is contagious!!