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Jean-Pierre S.2
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10 years ago

Ransomware shared through a Dropbox shared folder - What to do ?

(MacBookPro 2011, OS 10.11.2, Time Machine incremental backups on a time capsule at home and duplicate clones by CCC at home, still running every night while I was away in New Zealand; Cluster of 24 ...
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Mark
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10 years ago

Should I advise the authorities ?

No. Your shared folders have a simple virus. Thats all.

What should I state (privately by phone) to Eric, the Originator ?

Your folders have a virus that are spreading to everybody in the share. I would also tell everybody else in the share though incase they get infected also.

What should I do to delete all corrupted parts and not omit any one ?

Ask him to follow www.dropbox.com/help/400 to recover the files - which will also recover them for you. As long as you dont run an infected file your machine isnt at risk.

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