WARNING – CryptLocker virus is *really* making the rounds. Short story, if you don’t have a good backup, you likely won’t have your data
The CryptoLocker ransomware is back with a vengence. If you have data, you're a potential victim. CryptoLocker is a nasty piece of ransomware that, once it infects your computer, begins to systematically encrypt every file that you have write access to. Thistypically includes files stored on your local hard drive, on external hard drives (like the USB backup drives that are very popular) and shared network drives. Once the damage is done, the malware demands a ransom in exchange for the key to decrypt the files so that you can have access to them again. It uses very strong (2048 bit) encryption and, to my knowlege, has not been broken yet. What's more, as the command and control servers are taken down, some users have paid the ransom but been…