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Pay ransomware crooks, or restore the network? Guess which way this city chose after weighing up the costs

Boris the Cockroach Silver badge

It would never work.

The malware got onto the systems by dodgy email attatchment (my preference for users that click on the link/attatchment is to be burned alive infront of the rest of the staff) and we all know that despite the signs/training it will be From: Doug(best friend) " here watch this video" and the user will click on it (even after seeing my demostration 10 minutes earlier).

And i were the crims.. leave a nice little booby trap on the machines timed to go off in 12 months so I get a nice annual subscription.

Paying the danegeld means the dane will be back next year for more

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