Ransomware gets a lot faster by encrypting the master file table instead of the filesystem

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@Nonentity

And I thought the malware emails I keep seeing reports of with a message along the lines of “just run the executable if this email doesn’t open correctly” were bad…

The really horrible part? I work in the IT department of a college campus. The chair of our Computer Science department has been hit by malware in just this way at least three times. Having taken a class or two with him, I’m really not sure why we even let him have a campus provided computer, but it’s certainly not my decision.