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How can we stop the ransomware plague?
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How can we stop the ransomware plague?
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Mandatory IQ (>100) checks at ISP registration
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You can always just not dl it and not let it run amok pn your pc.
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Government pays reparations for every victim of ransomware so no money is lost. Feel the Bern!
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Cars require a driver's licence.
Why don't computers require a computing licence?
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>>53747711
>>53747716
But what about your mom? Would you be so unforgiving if your mom was the victim?
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heuristic detection, any program gradually rewriting every file under a user's home directory or in general is probably malicious

also a cache that preserves old state of files so that it can be restored post-ransom, assuming heuristic detection catches and stops it early enough.
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Better education about this kind of thing. Even a televised PSA wouldnt go amiss
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>>53747700
Why can't it be unlocked?
I mean if you have a copy of file, and the encrypted file, won't it be possible to decrypt it?
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Stop using Windows
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>>53747700
Keep backups of your shit like anyone with sense would.
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