Just a little more info and a meta-HN fact: I don't ordinarily use bit torrent, but I was downloading a couple OS images and the provider requested I use bit t

Just a little more info and a meta-HN fact: I don't ordinarily use bit torrent, but I was downloading a couple OS images and the provider requested I use bit torrent so I went and got Transmission during the period while the malware was up, but before Transmission discovered it. I got lucky and saw a news article, perhaps on HN, about the infection the next day or two, verified I had it, removed it, and ran a set of offline backups. Had I not caught it, after a several day waiting period the malware would have encrypted my drives for ransomware. So I got ridiculously unlucky to get the infection, and then ridiculously lucky to see an article suggesting I might have it before it went off. About HN, the parent comment is getting a disappointing amount of up and down voting relative to its total score.