Buffalo used his keyboard to write :
> "FromTheRafters"  wrote in message 
> news:ma98km$e8r$1@news2.open-news-network.org...
>>
>>Buffalo laid this down on his screen :
>>> Any method of restoring any of those files?
>>
>>Restore them from the backups. I know, I know, but it has to be said.
>>
>>No Vista OS disc might mean it has a restore to factory/recovery partition 
>> instead.
>>
> Yes, it has a Recovery partition.
> He didn't even have System Restore turned on, let alone any backups. :)
> I just posted in case someone found a 'new' way to recover those files.

When they used cheap encryption or just dirty tricks to make you think 
it had encrypted files the possibility was there to recover without 
paying the ransom. I think that they use RSA with a 2048 bit key now.


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