Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for July 10, 2021

Obviously not vaccinated.

Wally gotta Wally. And so does Cliff.

No problem those people probably accept most forms of cryptocurrency. You don’t have any? OK you can now worry.

A friend had a similar ransomware attack many years ago. I suggested he restore the computer to an earlier saved point. He did & it worked.

cliff should be marked NSFW…

Don’t push the shiny, candy-like red button!

Apparently, he didn’t pay attention to the additional Cyrillic script

And now the network is infected. Nice work.

Back in the Ice Age, didn’t Windows 95 (or rather, the version of Outlook that came with it) automatically open attachments? One of Microsoft’s worst ideas. . . .

Reminds me of when my boss had me host some lunchtime meetings where I warned how to spot malicious e-mails, and what to do… people appeared to be more interested in eating lunch than listening to me…

As a test, I sent out an e-mail that should have raised several red flags based upon my warnings. I included a link to click on (all it did was log who clicked on it)… by the end of the week most of the people who had attended those meetings were in the log…