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Per computer.

If the ransomware has no vulns itself, this is going to be a hit to economy, either by paying the ransom (it's already hit some major companies) or the losses produced by it.



I should hope that they can just reimage the workstations and if network drives were affected, just restore from shadow copy or backups.


You can reimage the workstations but how much work has been lost? Probably an awful lot.

I can't even fathom how many spreadsheets with no backup have been lost today.

WRT backups... :^)


I've rarely worked at a place that didn't shadow copy your user directory to a network location. The only thing that SHOULD be lost is whatever hadn't been saved when they were ransomwared.

The company should be able to pull a backups from the last file change prior to that event.


Thank you, I didn't see that.




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