Sounds like Mixture got out of bed on the wrong side, what with the reply above and his sledging of Ancient Observer over Rotten Apple. He'd make a good accident investigator: "You stupid moron, you continued straight on and banged into a building; you're fired, no correspondence will be entered into!".
I have religiously been doing backups for years but never realised or thought that a virus like this could infect
any network or USB drive that is attached to my computer, and I bet many others thought the same. Cryptolocker means I've got to physically connect my backup drive, every day, only when doing a backup
and after verifying I don't have this thing!
Perhaps Mixture, you have a constructive suggestion about how to shield an attached backup solution from Cryptolocker? I'm sure power users the world over don't physically connect a backup drive every time they want to do a backup. Or some other protection method to compliment the "don't click on it" policy?
For the floor, what are thoughts on
Cryptoprevent?