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If it was $20 instead, I would probably pay it anyway, but there's really no point.

Yes, that's why they don't really target individuals. But if they've found a couple of sloppy companies, jackpot!

Quote from: coinits on May 13, 2017, 05:23:54 PM

I assume the following:
- that some institutions reverted to clean backups
- there are more than 3 addresses
- spread was stopped by a blogger who discovered a kill switch in the virus (this has been verified) - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/13/accidental-hero-finds-kill-switch-to-stop-spread-of-ransomware-cyber-attack

There have to be more than 3 addresses. And it's Saturday, many companies cannot access their money until the banks open Monday. Only then we'll see how big the damage is...

Do you really think that those big companies that are affected by the virus will be paying bitcoins to decrypt their infected files? I think they just get specialist to remove the ransomware, but I am not sure if that is even possible with this big infection from last week.

Ransomware honestly its so easy to remove there are many software that can remove those ransomeware upon experience this virus before by many laptops and computers when i was repairing their computer i notice that they are just hiding the files and only the created and copy of your files are in same folder that you can only seen if you turn of the hide system files..
Kaspersky is 1 of the tool that can recover your files from ransomware this link may help you to recover all of your files from ransomware.
https://noransom.kaspersky.com/
many different ransomware so you can test them all to clean affected computer..

The other thing to make clean your computer is advanced hirens not a free 1 i think the hirens that i use for repairing by many years its i think hirens restored edition proteus.. this is not recommended for beginners . you can find this tool in piratebay..

Are you sure? In this time I was assuming if Wannacry is a new ransom and it's not registered on the database.
The ransom must be registered on the database and the software can be identifying the kind of ransom and try to recover the computer. I can't get your point but it seems impossible right now. Because WannaCry has made on 14 April and it's new ransom.