My answer is NO!

Someone must have opened the ransomware app and run it! Funnily, they don't show you if they are running. For the ones in Office document macros you do get a warning (because of the macro) but I can tell you a gullible person will run the macro, because the subject of the e-mail/or body is normally so sweet/attractive/creates anxiety.

Just for the kicks, at some client's office, I wrote a rudimentary batch script to backup a server. The script maps a network drive, does the backup by creating a dated file (compressed), then disconnects the network drive. That way if a user get's the server encrypted, the backup drive will not be encrypted. Why did I do this? Because ransomware checks even shared drives and encrypts them as long as it gets the write permissions.

On 5 October 2016 at 21:17, Kennedy Aseda <samskid5@gmail.com> wrote:

Wash,

Is it possible an attacker can break into a server, escalate their privilege to root or admin, run the encryption tool on data directory then ask for ransom? Just a random thought.

Kennedy

On 5 Oct 2016 21:12, "Odhiambo Washington via skunkworks" <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:

Ransomware is NOT malware in the true sense of malware. Ransomware is more like you personally decide to run a program that encrypts your files, only this time it's not you :-)
AFAICT, no antivirus will ever detect ransomware. Again, ransomware requires the user to be gullible enough to run it. Sorry Kevin.

On 5 October 2016 at 19:19, alex watila via skunkworks <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:

anti malware did not prevent the attack?

On 5 Oct 2016 18:55, Kevin Ochieng via skunkworks <skunkworks@lists.my.co.ke> wrote:

Hi Pals,

woke up today moring only to realise that all my folders in the server were affected and replaced by - SJAWv2LVfy.b674

- README HTML Application

Anyone gotten this attack before?

Kevin Ochieng'

Skype : kevinjanabi

Phone : +254 733229214

+254727217330

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