New Ransomware virus targeting video game save files specifically. Be careful, yo.

The second somebody quotes a law book, it's unequivocally decided. Till then, first come first serve.

Same problem though. It all defines it as the release of something in exchange for something.

Which, is a grey area if noobie-ransomware is holding your computer hostage. It claims to, and when you get it, by standard user capabilities, it withholds your computer from your use.

There are also variants that don't encrypt anything, but if you don't pay immediately when you see the screen or tamper with the virus, the next thing the virus will do is cause catastrophic memory failure or deletion. Which is equally as ransom-esque.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransomware
Oh look, here is a link, first paragraph, so lolz u got rekt, i stuff'd ya, eat it herp derp.

NO i did NOT edit wikipedia to get this result. Look at the wiki history. Ransomware terminology predates decrypting files being popular, and before all of this was the term used for the fake popups claiming to hold the computer hostage.

dude chill. wikipedia's definition, from the perspective of an informatician, needs an update.

but why don't we just drop this.

point was the one that is real is a real threat. and not to be taken lightly. and cannot be undone once it has infected the system through anti-malware.

So you are saying, three years ago when bogus ransomware was popular but decryption based ones weren't, that the given term ransomware that it has had for 3 years, is to be stripped, just because it wins an arguement and some other stuff came up after the fact?

I am just saying, as far as my arguement goes, it looks REALLY good because EVERYTHING about me is retro and the most retro term for ransomware that the 6 year old majority of the internet forgot was the good old one that just locks your internet connection from the registry and claims you can pay to have it restored. I have fixed more of those for people I know than I can count on 2 hands.

I'm saying definitions evolve yes.

Also, by definition, the thread title says "new ransomware", meaning even they were refering to the existance of old ones.

Anyway, I will try to drop it, but ima still refer to old ransomware as ransomware and insist I am right. Besides that though, I won't pursue it any longer. I hope @squishypon3 appreciates me defending him.

But I get the point. "neo-ransomware" that encrypts your computer files, is a servere threat. Not the worse, there have been some that brick your machine and you need to buy a new one, as well as brick your actual hard drive so that thing is trash or scrap metal, but this one instantly costs you 500 dollars or all of your files the very instant it is activated which is instant-high-level threat.

I don't think the title was inclusive of old meanings TT_TT nor did it point to Illuminati , it just simply implied that "it is new"

Whatevs brah, im gunna take you back to the past to play the shitty games that suck *** brah. Like C&C Renegade. And Megaman Legends. And UrQuan Masters.

But seriously though, let me go from the most annoying and useless in this thread, to even more most annoying yet actually useful:

http://www.welivesecurity.com/2013/...ct-against-ransomware-including-cryptolocker/

No, that isn't a link to cryptolock. That is tips as well as an automated prep tool, to block cryptolock from working. Including running from temp folders, blocking rdf from allowing remote desktop access which transfers the key, and not allowing files from running with 2 extensions like pdf.exe. Also, remember, .scr is not a screensaver or screenshot file, it is a form of EXECUTIBLE and is DANGEROUS.

*her.

Rules of the Internet: #37. Blah. I refer to everyone as such. Tits or gtfo, and such. Seriously though, don't care, don't know, don't care to know, doesn't change anything, i still defended that person.

you argued about what the term ransomware included while she pointed to having had the same type ransomware mentioned in the OP?

sorry to be nitpicking here, but :

you didn't defend her ...you piked your own fight x)

EDIT: while I'm nitpicking :

executable.

I never said it was the same, I even said earlier mine was a crappy version. =l

god I wish we could give this up. BUT I'M RIGHT ON THE INTERNET!

by now it's this


anyways.. technically...

you didn't.

and saying

after, doesn't equate to what the truth is.

the "true" ransomware doesn't lock up your computer at all, you can use it just fine. it just kindly informs you of what the situation is with your valuable files and how to get them back.

And trophy only bounced back a bunch of posts later, but not of of that. off of the ransomware term alone.

( x'D keeping the peace disturbed and at unrest, your's truly, tatsu)

"Maybe the better versions" obviously implies I was saying what I had was lower tier. =/

"lower tier" is not the same thing as "fundamentally different". :/ sorry I'm trying my hardest but I can't accept that answer either xD

But they called what he got "Ransomware" 6 years ago. The only reason they even call the current virus, is because it is a "better version" of something that already exists! It is like saying an axe made out of stone and wood, is fundamentally different than an axe at Walmart...

So, a ransom with criminals is where they hold your kidnapper, except I guess it isn't ransom because the police could always bust them if they are half careless, so shoddy ameteur ransomers apparently aren't ransomers at all. So what exactly do the police charge them with?

Again, if it tells you that you must pay to access your computer, since well over 50% of people are too computer illiterate to tell that it is a scam, let alone how to regain access through eliminating the virus, then it IS RANSOMWARE, much like if you kidnap Liam Nielson's daughter then it's still a ransom despite the fact he has all the capability of getting her back and eliminating the ransomers.

Really... Really brah... I know this can't be your first language. I am about to spend the afternoon, type your name into forum search, start back at KICKSTARTER, and from there forward grammar and spelling nazi the hell out of your posts. I know we will have an entire frontpage in gen discussion of necroed posts from 2013...

stop !
sorry, but any further logic constructed on this principle is flawed because the principle is wrong.

it's not a better version.

being a better version would require it to be a version of ".."

it's not.

it a completely different method.

none of the code for one was used for the other.

one initiates a guilt-inducing lie about you, using psychology to make you put the hand to the wallet in a state of panic before reasoning with yourself and thinking better of it because no real risk is run.


the other truly holds ransom (this is why the use of that exact term for the other seems a bit backwards to me) files of yours, it does not require psychology, it does not require panic, it does not require good timing or 'initial reaction'.
The perpetrator, has successfully robbed you of your files and is sole holder of the one method to retrieve them.


i can't see how one could perceive one as a 'version' of the other. one way or vise versa.

Are we finally on the same wavelength? do you see why calling them the same name is a bad idea and could causes communication problems?

ITT:

i had something like this above :this x'D

check it out it's a funny as hell movie, and this scene transcends languages.