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That's a good point. 64GB or higher flash drives are relatively inexpensive and you can plug them into one of the mobo's usb ports. I could easily fit local files onto one. I don't think ransomeware encrypts executable files or libraries yet so no need to back those up. Heck, I could just write a program myself to perform the backup.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
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Re-imaging your systems drive may take 10 minutes and will completely get rid of the virus if done right. How does that compare with the time to re-install an entire operating system and all apps?
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True, but re-imaging requires constant updates that consume actual resources every day (and quite a lot of them), for the few files that you actually need to be backed up. Its only advantage is that it backs up the OS.
Not giving a damn about the OS allows you to back-up a comparatively tiny amount of files, which consumes only petty system resources.
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For me, re-imaging is the way to go. However, I can do it in my sleep, so I don't see it as much of an obstacle. If you ever have a few spare moments, download and try imaging software like Macrium's Reflect or AOEMI Backupper Standard (all free). And see what it's all about. Good Luck! 
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The old Yahoo web client used to show the contents of a link when the mouse pointer was hovered over it. Very useful for spottig fake addresses. Sadly that doesn't seem to exist anymore.
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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Had the exact e-mail before. A good metric to see what scanners are good is to upload the attachment to http://www.virustotal.com and see which scanners detect it. Neither MalwareBytes nor Symantec picked it up when I checked awhile ago.
modified 3-May-16 14:00pm.
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The VirusTotal page does not exist!
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Never posted a link here before. It did something like codeproject.com/virustotal.com 
I changed the link to just be the full address that you can copy and paste.
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OK, I reached the page by typing virustotal.com in the URL bar. Thanks for the reference! Your post deserves an upvote. 
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modified 3-May-16 15:18pm.
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Um, clicking a button on a web-site that purports to tell you if a file is OK might not be a wise thing to do.
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From the about page:
VirusTotal, a subsidiary of Google, is a free online service that analyzes files and URLs enabling the identification of viruses, worms, trojans and other kinds of malicious content detected by antivirus engines and website scanners. At the same time, it may be used as a means to detect false positives, i.e. innocuous resources detected as malicious by one or more scanners.
Nothing will ever detect 100% of the maliciousness out there but at least you can throw about 54 antivirus scanners (at the time of this writing) at a suspicious file.
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Well, gosh, don't you have a filter in your e-mail whatever that is at least flagging these toxic billet-doux, routing them into a special folder (as in Chrome's 'Spam folder) ?
If I were ever crazy enough to open one of those '.doc files, or run some kind-a strange JavaScript, I suspect my Emsisoft software would catch them and warn me.
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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I use Office 2010. It does not have the greatest spam filters. However my ISP does filter for spam. However, some messages still make it through to my inbox. 
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You are targeted by the US government
The reason only Avira and Kaspersky detect it, they are off shore.
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My sister forwarded me an email with an attachment she couldn't open. Because it was from my sister, and I thought she was expecting it, of course I try to open it to see what it's about and what's wrong. 
Thank goodness she reads her mails on her iDevice, and I similarly tried to open it on a Mac, so no damage, but she got a hot, sharp lecture on common sense and looking at email addresses to see where it originates from 
The downloaded attachment was obfuscated, but some of the variable names still conveyed intent. If I had time/inclination, would've liked to try figure out what it actually does.
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Cornelius Henning wrote: If I scan these obviously malicious messages with Defender and Malwarebytes, they come up clean!
AFAIK, that's because the attachments don't contain any malware. They just contain code that downloads the malware from somewhere on the interwebz, and then launch the downloaded file.
Your antivirus should pick up the downloaded file as malicious, but I wouldn't want to risk it. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I trust nobody; use a hex editor on everything.
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Currently debating x-plat mobile technologies. Has anyone ever used NativeScript? Any opinions?
i cri evry tiem
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Ugh. Building apps with Javascript? I try to limit my exposure to lethal radiation.
Marc
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Lol, I've learned not to hate it as much. The syntactical sugar in ES6 and TypeScript make things a little better. Currently, I'm using Ionic.
i cri evry tiem
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Last year, when I had just started creating an artificial intelligence algorithm, I made a post calling for suggestions for ways to keep artificial intelligence good mannered and well behaved. At the time, my algorithm was still a long way from being functional. However, it is now at the point of going into beta, so I posted a very strict list of do's and don't list on Github. It is very strict indeed and needs to be.
It has been released on a GPL license, so everyone can own it (emphasis on “own”), criticise it and contribute to it. The address is:
https://github.com/Grand-Axe/The-Creed
Please take time out to read it and tell me what you think.
You can find my original post here, its titled; “Suggestions for ethical general artificial intelligence”:
http://www.codeproject.com/Lounge.aspx?msg=5066150#xx5066150xx
My website is at: Mind Mutiny[^]
Thanks
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If I might make a suggestion, change the first sentence on your site:
"Okeuvo Artificial Intelligence, is a new algorithm for general artificial intelligence. It is the first general artificial intelligence system that can;"
to:
"Okeuvo, pronounced [give pronunciation], Artificial Intelligence is a new algorithm for general artificial intelligence. It is the first general artificial intelligence system that can;"
It's a combination of letters that will be pronounced a lot of different ways in different languages, and it doesn't lend itself to English -- and that's a big turn-off for many people.
English grammar note:
English doesn't separate subjects from their verbs, like many languages do, so "Okeuvo Artificial Intelligence, is" is an error, because "Okeuvo Artificial Intelligence" is a (phrasal) noun acting as the subject, and "is" is the verb, so you can't put a comma between them, in English.
That'll be 50 cents for the English micro-lesson.
[edit] I forgot to take the bluddy comma out myself!
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modified 3-May-16 15:56pm.
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Thanks, I do owe you that 50 cents.
...And there I was thinking I had gained English kung fu. Heheh!
The comma is now gone from the offending sentence on the website.
A couple of victims (some British) were suffered with the pronunciation of Okeuvo though, all did quite well. Its pronounced "ok-ee-uvo". In the future, an audio symbol will be placed next to the word.
Its unusual to come across a person with such linguistic knowledge on a coders site; your grasp is impressive indeed!
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If you do the audio with a cute girly voice, developers will keep coming back to the site 
And computer languages are too easy. If you want a real challenge, you have to go for human languages.
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