That was in 2015, at the time ransomware was somewhat "behaved" and there weren't the many different variants that did things like just scrambling your files an

That was in 2015, at the time ransomware was somewhat "behaved" and there weren't the many different variants that did things like just scrambling your files and throwing up a Bitcoin address to "decrypt" them. I think things have shifted now to the where it's not something that's recommended.