So good

Diablo 3 Reaper of Souls is so damn good.  Turn off the lights, turn up the volume and enjoy the non-stop demon face smashing.  I am at the end boss for the new expansion.  I tried to beat him once and got mauled.  I am only level 41 (top level is 70) so I need to do some research into what it’s going to take.

Last night we had our next door neighbor over to give her a crash course on Tuki care while we are away this weekend.  It’s a pretty simple yet important duty of course.  I am hoping once we get chickens she is agreeable to tending to them too.

Yesterday we had another incident at work where somebody that was not utilizing good web surfing practices contracted the Cryptolocker malware, encrypting thousands of files on both her local system and her connected network drive.  She infected her machine by clicking on a search result in Google that lead to a trap site.  The last time this occurred it was via a link in email.

Corrupted search engine results is a very effective way to trick less than savvy computer users into becoming malware victims.  Quite often the URL of the fake sites look legitimate, at least to the average web surfer.  I have heard and seen countless example firsthand of somebody infecting their machine via this route.

Since I had one go round with Cryptolocker I already had a plan of action ready to roll, using the most recent shadow copy back ups of the network data prior to the encryption.  The timing worked out pretty well since she infected her PC around 7:30 AM and a round of network shadow copies just occurred 30 minutes prior.  However, just like the last time, the local files on the user’s PC were trashed and there was no way we were paying a ransom to decrypt them. We could remove the malware from her system but that does not decrypt all of the local files affected. I view it as a little stinging reminder to this user to be more careful in the future and if they have files they deem important to save them on the network as they are instructed to do.