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That would be an insta-kill of their business-model. In reality they are very helpful and are known to even accept post-deadline payments etc.

• cyphar 8y ago
  Who are their returning customers? It's strange to refer to literal extortion as a "business model".
  • jacobush 8y ago
    People saving on education and best practices.
  • LeftTurnSignal 8y ago
    In a previous life, I supported a local govt and I had a judge get a different variant of the cryptowall virus 6 times before I took his "work" PC away. His real work PC was controlled by the state and not me, hence the quotes. That's the type of person who is a repeat offender. He could never tell me how he got the virus, but some recon between email and internet history showed otherwise. He loved clicking on EVERYTHING while "researching" cases. I get the research, but a lot of court cases probably aren't on page 20 of google on some shady half English sites either. Lots of fun in local government. /also I just restored from backups each time but they were ready to pay to have "all their data restored."
    • shearskill 8y ago
      Reminds me of doing tech support for my father in law the lawyer. Clicked on everything, including tons of porn malware. I fixed and added what security and regular backups I could and never said a word about it. Several re-installs later he put me in his will, worked out well for everyone.