Locked Down - In December I noticed photos on the NAS had a suspicious suffix added to the filename. The culprit was my Plex Media Server/Yacam box became infected and all the files were encrypted. The box was immediately turned off and I began cleaning up the problem. Unfortunately any shared libraries (like on the NAS) were impacted too. Thankfully I have monthly backups and I could replace the photos and music that was encrypted and today I began reformatting the infected PC with a new operating system. Sorry Mister Crabz, you won't get any ransom from me.
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| Maker | Canon |
| Model | Canon PowerShot S95 |
| Date Time of Original | 2018:01:09 05:55:20 |
| ApertureFNumber | f/2.0 |
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- Saturday 13 January 2018
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- Saturday 13 January 2018 08:27Biggest fear right there. Make sure your backups are clean too.
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- Saturday 13 January 2018 12:24The PC was completely wrecked - all applications, text files, etc. were unusable and if it wasn't such an unimportant machine it would have been a huge setback.
I didn't consider the backups being impacted! Thankfully I lapsed on doing a backup in November so they were from October and not at risk and easily replaced all the media. For safe measures I had a second backup disk too because now that I was reliant on it one time having it fail at another would be bad news.