Posts by rally_champ 3 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Mar 2011
I realise this is a bit late but googling around I found:
https://heimdalsecurity.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/full-antivirus-detection-rates-teslacrypt-december-11-2015.png
Which reports only AhnLab-V3, Bkav, and Qihoo-360 picked it up. All the others, including all the famous names, e.g. Kaspersky, missed it (as evidenced by the green tick).
This is a summary https://heimdalsecurity.com/blog/security-alert-teslacrypt-infections-rise-spam-campaign-hits-companies-europe/
>user education
As Reality Dysfunction says above: Links for these things are often to a hacked subdomain of a valid site in order to defeat category based web filtering.
How would user education prevent that?
My dad's pc was infected with TeslaCrypt a couple of weeks ago and as far as I can tell he got infected through a sub-domain in one of his regular far-east supplier's website. His free McAfee failed to protect him and his external back-up was also encrypted. I wiped his hdd and did a fresh install of Win7. Fortunately all his docs were retrievable from Hotmail and I have copies of all his (good) photos.
This is the first time I have really noticed how bad some of the reporting from the BBC was. Particularly bad were, the so-called science correspondent, Pallab Ghosh who kept referring to tidal waves and how this was Japan's worst earthquake ever; and Clive Myrie who reported that evacuees could see out of their windows smoke rising from the power plant from the "flaming fuel rods".
I made a formal complaint to the BBC about his alarmist reporting.
But I did appreciate Alastair Leithead's efforts to show the devastation in a measured and respectful way. Also Damian Grammaticas had some good reports.
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