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Apparently it's the library's turn to pay a fine.
Libraries in St Louis have been bought to a standstill after computers in all the city's libraries were infected with ransomware, a particularly virulent form of computer virus used to extort money from victims.
Hackers are demanding $35,000 (£28,000) to restore the system after the cyberattack, which affected 700 computers across the Missouri city's 16 public libraries. The hackers demanded the money in electronic currency bitcoin, but, as CNN reports, the authority has refused to pay for a code that would unlock the machines.
As a result, the library authority has said it will wipe its entire computer system and rebuild it from scratch, a solution that may take weeks.
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(Score: 2) by tibman on Wednesday January 25 2017, @06:55PM
For backups i would suggest you focus on your actual data and not operating system files. Reinstalling windows is no big deal and something that has to be done periodically anyways. If you want to preserve your OS then i'd suggest doing a full-disk backup and not selective OS files. If you get some kind of malware then you really should format and reinstall. The malware could have put in a rootkit that you can't even see. Linux is a little different, imo. If you can verify they never had root and couldn't escalate then a clean-up is fine. I still reformat though : )
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