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MEXICOWANDERER
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May 15, 2017

Computer Virus Scare? Some Kwnowledeable Answers Out There?

I understand it's affected only XP systems. But I do not know how large institutional XP got infected. The virus is supposed to only load if a link is clicked. How did so many systems get fooled...
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GordonThree
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May 15, 2017
wgriswold wrote:
I back up wirelessly to a hard drive. So the drive is connected to my password protected router and visible on my network. Could a virus get to it?


More than likely, yes, it is vulnerable. The wireless drive probably shows up as a network server share, and cryptolocker viruses do search those out and infect them.

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