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Re: Vundo encrypting your files then making you pay
From: Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:14:53 -0400
On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:53:37 PDT, Alex Lanstein said:
Not sure if you guys saw this one. Pretty nasty... Vundo pushes something that encrypts your files and then pushes something (FileFix Pro 2009) that charges you to "recover" them. I can't imagine my mother NOT paying $50 to get all her documents back
That's not all *that* far removed from what Microsoft Office can do under the self-help rules for software you've *rented* from a vendor (remember, you don't *buy* software - if you did, a lot of the EULAs would go poof).
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