Warning: Super bad computer virus found on Salt Spring.

[David Bartle]

A close friend of mine has been attacked with a "Cryptolocker" type trojan virus which has locked up (encrypted) ALL of his photos. Please read the following link info. Make sure you do a "cold storage" of your files on a removable storage device/s that are not regularly attached to your computer or you might be in for a nasty suprise of losing ALL your photos if this virus gets in your machine.

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/torrentlocker-cryptol...

Since there is, to this date, no method of recovering the files, it is imperative that you make backups of your photos.

[Avril Kirby]

Thanks guys.

[Chris Dixon]

  

aHi Dave,

Is this virus specific to Macs or PC's?

[David Bartle]

http://www.welivesecurity.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/torrent_lo...

A white paper on the virus.