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This is a Windows phenomenon only right? I'd just restore from Time Machine and go along on my way.
by nodesocket 10y ago
This is a Windows phenomenon only right? I'd just restore from Time Machine and go along on my way.
- rospaya 10y agoAs if Windows or Linux don't have backup solutions?
- Klathmon 10y agoI don't know of any Mac specific variants off the top of my head, but there is no reason why Mac would be immune to it. And the "good" versions of these do things like encrypt or outright delete things like time machine before encrypting the rest.
- mastax 10y agoYou may remember an incident with Transmission recently. That was a bundled mac ransomware. https://blog.malwarebytes.com/cybercrime/2016/03/first-mac-ransomware-spotted/ https://blog.malwarebytes.com/cybercrime/2016/03/first-mac-r...
- Joky 10y agoThat supposes that the backup is local, I have a time capsule (remote) and I also plug once every other day an external hard-drive for my time machine backups.
- TeMPOraL 10y agoIt's primarily a Windows thing, but it only happens because Windows is the most popular desktop OS. Mac users sound like a pretty good target though, so I'd expect to see more MacOS-targeted malware in the future.
- valleyer 10y agoWhat an incredibly uninformed comment. I'm a Mac guy through and through, but if you think that most Mac users use Time Machine or that no Windows users use backup software, you need to spend more time in the real world.
- spyder 10y agohttps://blog.malwarebytes.com/cybercrime/2016/03/first-mac-ransomware-spotted/ https://blog.malwarebytes.com/cybercrime/2016/03/first-mac-r...