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[quote="NewScientist.com"]Security experts warned on Tuesday of a new type of threat to computer users called ransom-ware
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This is the funniest damn thing I have ever seen. Hopefully, they are only using EFS to encrypt the files, should be easy to crack since it's developed by M$.
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virus writers might turn to military-grade encryption systems instead.
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thanx for the info Rat. :D
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