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Post by irvsp on Nov 21, 2013 14:04:48 GMT
A restart is required, normal boot observed. You have UAC off? I do not, but lowered to one below the default so it doesn't dim the display.
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Post by Admin_Vistamike on Nov 21, 2013 14:44:42 GMT
Irv, I have UAC permanently disabled on both machines. Found UAC a pain since Vista. I rely on Comodo Firewall to report back. The reason for this is that I am forever installing and uninstalling various software and I am the only user.
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Post by irvsp on Nov 21, 2013 16:12:03 GMT
I left it on, not blackening the screen on my system and the default on the wife's. I'd rather KNOW something is messing with the system than not, and we're both single users. Especially important on 'hidden' things that try to run or files d/l'ed and executed.
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Post by GuiltySpark on Nov 21, 2013 16:13:25 GMT
Doesn't always work though, for example images/photos are also encrypted, now depending on the image extension that's used you may be able to save an image as a .RAW file (which if you do photo editing work you should have anyway by default) but, there is no guarantee that a RAW file is immune either.
Interestingly I've not seen any mention of it encrypting Open Office files or Libre Office file extensions.
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Post by irvsp on Nov 21, 2013 17:56:53 GMT
I thought that .DOC and .DOCX was on the list? There might be more than one list too, I saw a 'short' one that had those and Excel extensions but another post said there were 422 extensions it looks for to encrypt? I found YET ANOTHER PROTECTION PROGRAM that works differently. Could be 'more' intrusive though. I'll give it a try. ANOTHER STILL IS HITMANPRO.ALERT but that appears to be specific to browsers that it protects?
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Post by irvsp on Nov 21, 2013 18:50:33 GMT
That BITDEFENDER program is gone from my system. It doesn't seem to be able to be STOPPED from AUTOSTARTING? Changed the setting, re-booted, and the UAC popped up? Looked at my autostarts and it was still there? Also, the disable protection didn't. It said restart, did that, up came BD (although it wasn't supposed to start) and it still showed 'protected'.
I took it out, trying the CryptoPreventer now. Seems OK so far and the TEST function worked (so it says).
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Post by warlock on Nov 22, 2013 0:31:22 GMT
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Post by GuiltySpark on Nov 22, 2013 0:54:26 GMT
Joe that link will only remove the cryptolocker screen it will not disable the reg settings that cryptolocker creates and as for safe mode with networking this will do nothing if the reg setting has a cryptolocker random file name followed by a * the asterix signifies crypto will boot/run in safe mode too.
just FYI.
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Post by warlock on Nov 22, 2013 1:03:08 GMT
That's the same old POS. I was referring to. Piece of junk to be sure.
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Post by GuiltySpark on Nov 22, 2013 1:06:17 GMT
Oh, I see what you mean now
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Post by warlock on Nov 22, 2013 1:16:11 GMT
Yeah, you know how some would click on the site because your computer is at risk. And, then you pay for, and get nothing. Not as bad as Crypto locker but, takes advantage of the not knowing.
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Post by GuiltySpark on Nov 22, 2013 1:22:02 GMT
Too true.
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