1 month anniversary

tadpole · 2016-01-08, 11:56 AM

Today I am totally in the doldrums. 1 month anniversary of being hit by Cryptowall 4 Ransomeware. Once a year I do an image of my hardrive. I backup daily on a flashdrive. I was hit 1, yes ONE day before I was due to do a new image and my flash drive was backing up as I got hit. So that was my backup drive and my hard drive encrypted. One years work lost, to the day.

Cryptowall 4 also destroys all your shadow volumes, restore points - including those made by 3rd party programs. It also doubles the ransome if it goes unpaid for a set number of days. I will not be blackmailed - Ha ha I do have some principals

I have spent the last month trying every data recovery software I can find, and am not getting much back. My biggest loss is photos of my dogs, past and present(my children) , earnings and a year of research into an offline business I wish to start.

One good thing happened today

I got a call from a courier, and when I collected my parcel , it contained six bottles of injectable immune therapy for my little Rocket (apple of my eye) Jack Russel who suffers terrible seasonal allergy. I am so grateful to the Vets in USA as Africa does not offer blood analysis and immune therapy treatment for dog and cat allergies. Bad news is my poor little totty is gonna have to have a lot of jabs.

2016-01-08, 11:56 AM	#1
tadpole Oh! I haven't changed since high school and suddenly I am uncool Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Darkest Africa Posts: 258	1 month anniversary Today I am totally in the doldrums. 1 month anniversary of being hit by Cryptowall 4 Ransomeware. Once a year I do an image of my hardrive. I backup daily on a flashdrive. I was hit 1, yes ONE day before I was due to do a new image and my flash drive was backing up as I got hit. So that was my backup drive and my hard drive encrypted. One years work lost, to the day. Cryptowall 4 also destroys all your shadow volumes, restore points - including those made by 3rd party programs. It also doubles the ransome if it goes unpaid for a set number of days. I will not be blackmailed - Ha ha I do have some principals I have spent the last month trying every data recovery software I can find, and am not getting much back. My biggest loss is photos of my dogs, past and present(my children) , earnings and a year of research into an offline business I wish to start. One good thing happened today I got a call from a courier, and when I collected my parcel , it contained six bottles of injectable immune therapy for my little Rocket (apple of my eye) Jack Russel who suffers terrible seasonal allergy. I am so grateful to the Vets in USA as Africa does not offer blood analysis and immune therapy treatment for dog and cat allergies. Bad news is my poor little totty is gonna have to have a lot of jabs. __________________