Thanks Fordee.  The strain that we have been hit with is cryptowall 3.0.  It was identified in January of this year so I would have thought that there would be some info on it but I don't know if there is a decrypt tool.  I am still looking.

I appreciate everyone's comments.  We were doing file level backups and were able to recover most of the data by restoring but we had a particular file share that was not on the same schedule and was only being backed up monthly and, of course, we got nailed about 3 days before the scheduled backup so there was too much data at stake to restore from the previous month.

I have yet to find the source so I am still operating in limited fashion with only mission critical devices on the network.

Thanks again.

Thank you.  I definitely rushed into it in an effort to get my business back up and running and obviously made a bad decision.  I appreciate your input and am looking into an alternate wallet.  This has been quite an experience.

Thanks again.

Hi all.  I am new to this environment and am in desperate need of some help.  My business has been infected with a crypto virus and we are going to have to pay the ransome.  I have setup a wallet in the Bit Core ap and have transferred coins to it but it appears that there is a synchronization process that is taking forever to complete.  Is there a direct download of this data that would allow me to expedite?  

Looking for any assistance you can offer.