Good Afternoon Everyone:
Well, I was the unfortunate receiver of what I think was a Cryptowall Ransomware variant. I watch about 35 videos on youtube, each telling me that there are a few ways to get rid of the ransomware. All it said was that I needed to pay $1,000 USD for the unlock code. I figured that "heck, I just need to find out what I am dealing with and get the right tool" WRONG - There was no indication of what it was, and worse than that, it must have activated while I was away, because when I got home, ALL FILES had been compromised..........I was advised to WIPE the drive all the way, and reinstall using my system image that I made on 3/29/18.
PROBLEM IS: While it SAYS that you can use a network connection to connect to a server share (running samba on Debian 8), each attempt says that the image cannot be found. I can't simply back up the image on the same drive, so I have set up samba to back it up to my 8TB drive over the network, but I wonder why I cant restore this way - keeps erroring out, even with the right password - Is there a way to force it to find the image?
Even when I copied the image to a folder on the desktop, windows could NOT find the image - Should I move the image copy to the ROOT of the C: drive and command a system recovery? Is there a way to go right into the recovery, or do we have to always go to "troubleshoot" - seems a LONG way 'round if you want windows to recover an image?
Any assistance you could provide me with would be beneficial, as without the image restored, I have bare bones capabilities right now.....
Thanks,
Brian B.
Well, I was the unfortunate receiver of what I think was a Cryptowall Ransomware variant. I watch about 35 videos on youtube, each telling me that there are a few ways to get rid of the ransomware. All it said was that I needed to pay $1,000 USD for the unlock code. I figured that "heck, I just need to find out what I am dealing with and get the right tool" WRONG - There was no indication of what it was, and worse than that, it must have activated while I was away, because when I got home, ALL FILES had been compromised..........I was advised to WIPE the drive all the way, and reinstall using my system image that I made on 3/29/18.
PROBLEM IS: While it SAYS that you can use a network connection to connect to a server share (running samba on Debian 8), each attempt says that the image cannot be found. I can't simply back up the image on the same drive, so I have set up samba to back it up to my 8TB drive over the network, but I wonder why I cant restore this way - keeps erroring out, even with the right password - Is there a way to force it to find the image?
Even when I copied the image to a folder on the desktop, windows could NOT find the image - Should I move the image copy to the ROOT of the C: drive and command a system recovery? Is there a way to go right into the recovery, or do we have to always go to "troubleshoot" - seems a LONG way 'round if you want windows to recover an image?
Any assistance you could provide me with would be beneficial, as without the image restored, I have bare bones capabilities right now.....
Thanks,
Brian B.