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Personally, I prefer the "nuclear option": reformat and reload from backup.
Paying the ransom? Not a good idea - firstly because it encourages more attacks, both generally (because it's money for old rope) and specifically (because you paid last time, you're more likely to get attacked again (it's always easier to recycle a mug punter than find new ones).
And there is the other risk with paying: there are fake ransomwares out there: they scramble your data, but don't actually worry about encryption. You pay, they send you a code that doesn't work; you pay again, ... repeat until the accountants find out.
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OriginalGriff wrote: Personally, I prefer the "nuclear option": reformat and reload from backup.
Agreed. This assumes, of course, that (a) you have been making backups, and (b) the backups are readable. Horror stories about corrupt backups that were not verified abound.
OriginalGriff wrote: Paying the ransom? Not a good idea
Also agreed. However, if the choice is between going out of business because of SysAdmin stupidity/negligence and paying the ransom...
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I'm betting on (3). What could go wrong?
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It takes time to recover from an attack.
You need to sanitize all your servers/databases, you need to sanitize all desktops/laptops/portable devices that has access to their systems.
You need to upgrade "best practices"; you need to upgrade your security systems.
You probably need to hire a trusted 3rd party to double check all systems.
You also need to check with your lawyers and insurances.
I'd rather be phishing!
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And with your detectives and "large men with big sticks". Just a suggestion.
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Given that Garmin are incorporated in Switzerland, they'll probably send the banksters after them. 
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Checking with Lawyers - there that is your hold up right there.
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Nearly every business seems to be requiring masks now but what I find interesting is that they are also enforcing social distancing rules as well. It seems that if you are saying we still need to stay away from each other even with masks on you're really saying that masks don't work.
Too much emotion involved in so many decisions these days. #BringBackLogic
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If airbags work, why have seat belts? If seatbelts work, why have airbags? If both work, why have brakes?
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Dan Neely wrote: If airbags work, why have seat belts?
Because seat belts don't work 100% of the time.
Dan Neely wrote: If seatbelts work, why have airbags?
Because airbags don't work 100% of the time.
Dan Neely wrote: If both work, why have brakes?
Analogy fail. 
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So replace "airbags" with "face masks" and replace "seat belts" with "social distancing" and you have just answered your own question.
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Correct. But I didn't have a question.
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Well, you got me there...
I guess I read that you were suggesting it's proof that masks don't work, when I think it only proves that masks don't work 100% of the time.
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musefan wrote: that masks don't work, when I think it only proves that masks don't work 100% of the time.
Ya.
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Let's take the dodge'em cars out of the amusement parks, and put them on the roads, where they belong!
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That would be a way to vent road rage in a safe manner.
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Masks partially work, as does social distancing. It's a probability game, and those two are the best way of decreasing the rate of new cases. Also, at least where I am, you may keep 6 feet away most of the time, but going down aisles and what not you're going to come within 6 feet of each other.
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Kaladin wrote: Masks partially work,
Yes, exactly.
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Both will work -- together -- only if done properly.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: only if done properly.
What does that even mean? How do you properly social distance? 6'? So, 6' is safe but 5'11" is not safe?
What is a proper mask? Because most masks people are wearing are not that effective.
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You are obviously part of the problem.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: You are obviously part of the problem.
You are probably right but I'd love to hear why you think that. Otherwise, you prove the point of my post that everyone is being driven by pure emotion and no logic right now.
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Hold your hands to your face and spit ... maybe that will tweak something.
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Gerry Schmitz wrote: Hold your hands to your face and spit
Oh my gosh. Can you imagine the freak-outs if someone did that in public?
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As the other two have said: it's a balancing act: Masks do work - the research shows that - but they aren't the same as Social Distancing.
Masks are altruistic: they protect others from the mask wearer (who may not even know they are infectious).
SD protects both the wearer and the others, to an extent, but can be defeated by poor ventilation and air flow. Very fine infected water droplets can "hang" in relatively still air and be breathed in as you move down an "empty aisle" for example.
My wearing a mask reduces the "fine mist" of virus particles you might walk through later, even if you are at a good social distance.
It isn't a "choice" issue in either sense: you can't rely on one or the other for reasonable protection; you shouldn't be allowed to choose to walk round infecting others with a potentially lethal desease.
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