Extortion extinction: Researchers develop a way to stop ransomware
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Ransomware - what hackers use to encrypt your computer files and demand money in exchange for freeing those contents - is an exploding global problem with few solutions, but a team of University of Florida researchers says it has developed a way to stop it dead in its tracks.
Does it involve someone with a "very particular set of skills"?
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Ransomware - what hackers use to encrypt your computer files and demand money in exchange for freeing those contents - is an exploding global problem with few solutions, but a team of University of Florida researchers says it has developed a way to stop it dead in its tracks.
Does it involve someone with a "very particular set of skills"?
This is encouraging. I sadly make a living fixing computers and that often means cleaning malware. Ransom-ware is over the top. If someone can stop it - please do.
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Ransomware - what hackers use to encrypt your computer files and demand money in exchange for freeing those contents - is an exploding global problem with few solutions, but a team of University of Florida researchers says it has developed a way to stop it dead in its tracks.
Does it involve someone with a "very particular set of skills"?
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Ransomware - what hackers use to encrypt your computer files and demand money in exchange for freeing those contents - is an exploding global problem with few solutions, but a team of University of Florida researchers says it has developed a way to stop it dead in its tracks.
Does it involve someone with a "very particular set of skills"?
I do hope this proves effective and comes out soon because ransomware is my biggest fear when it comes to virus and malware. I'm sure extortionists will try to circumvent this but if all the major anti-viruses gets something similar that's this effective then profitability will fall and hopefully reduce the risk in the future.
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Ransomware - what hackers use to encrypt your computer files and demand money in exchange for freeing those contents - is an exploding global problem with few solutions, but a team of University of Florida researchers says it has developed a way to stop it dead in its tracks.
Does it involve someone with a "very particular set of skills"?
Does it involve locking down your computer with a 'safe' version that prohibits anyone else's from executing?