On Saturday, February 18, 2017 at 5:08:27 PM UTC-5, Wolf K wrote:


> 
> Easy: Write the ransomware to attack all partitions ("drives").
> 
> 

OK thanks Wolf K.  So I suppose ransom-ware will freeze your entire system,=
 all partitions, even USB sticks and external drives that happen to be conn=
ected to the infected PC at the time of the attack, immediately?  I didn't =
know that.  I was assuming the virus was selective in what it encrypted, an=
d otherwise let you do some work (I got this impression from reading an art=
icle that implied the PC was infected by ransomware for several weeks, but =
the owner did not know until weeks later).

RL
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