Re: Vundo encrypting your files then making you pay

[Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu]

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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