[Elecraft] Spectrogram download site

[g8kbvdave at googlemail.com]

That's an expensive product, just to setup a radio.....

> +1 for AVG and Malwarebytes together. I run both. That virus that 
> kidnaps your computer until you pay $300 ransom got mine before I had 
> Malwarebytes. It was the only anti-virus software that could detect it 
> and fix it in Safe Mode.

Malwarebytes is good, remember to keep it up-to-date.   AVG(free) is a bit 
behind the pack in the AV stakes however.

About the best AV (not free) is Eset's Nod32 for Windows users.  I think they 
even still support Win2k, if you need to keep some instrumentation running 
that uses that as an embedded OS for example, and it also gives you a realy 
flexible and powerful firewall for those older OS's.

(No affiliation, just a satisfied happy user.)

But...

The smart money, is to NOT open ANY attachments, or click on links in emails 
received unexpectedly, from anyone, especially those you don't know.  And in 
this context, that includes email lists, such as this!

Even if someone you know sends you something unexpectedly, DO NOT open it, 
untill you've contacted them and made sure they know it, and intended to send 
it to you.

In the case of CryptoLocker, the only real defence, is to have daily (or more 
frequent) viable backups of your personal and other important data, or feel 
realy smug, and don't use Windows as your OS!

(Note for MS Office users.  There is also a recently discovered problem with 
some versions of that, that can be compromised and your PC taken over as a 
result of opening some malicious .TIF files!)

It is possible to run your mail client (or browser, or anything else for that 
matter) under "Sandboxie" (google it.)  That wont prevent infection or bad 
things happening, or protect your privacy, but it will contain any malicuous 
writes to your system, such as the encrypted files, and also preventing it from 
removing/deleting your original files, even preventing it from messing with the 
live copy of the registry.

Just deleting the contents of the sandbox will then remove all trace of it.   Very 
useful for people who for whatever reason like to visit the "darker corners" of 
the web.

Anyone who does get hit by CryptoLocker, if they realy need to (like, they don't 
have viable backups) get their data back.  DO NOT remove the infection until 
after paying up and decrypting the files.  It can be done after disinfection, but 
it's a whole lot more painful to do.  As the disinfection process removes all the 
tools it provides to decrypt your data once payment has been processed.

The other thing to note, is that this will just be the first of this sort of 
ransomware to appear.  It's just too successful for the bad guys.

Take great care people.  Trust no one, not even me.

73.

Dave G0WBX.