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  |  Slashdot // Virus Hold Computer Files 'Hostage' for $200 dwayner79 sent in a story about a new virus making the rounds- this one is unique because it locks your files and then demands a $200 ransom to get them back. It seems to me that this might leave some sort of tracable money trail. They don't have much information on any particular transmission mechanism, they just talk about web pages giving it up.http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?si...21200&from=rss |
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