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Zman
Zman Member Posts: 7,569
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I have been using Dropbox for a few years now. I like it because you can share all the files related to a job with contractors, engineers, architect and owners.
The other day I started receiving notifications that one of my less than computer savy engineers had altered almost 2,000 job files at 3:00 AM. I reached out to him and he indicated that his computer was misbehaving and he didn't know what to do. After looking more carefully at the files, I noticed that they had been encrypted for ransom by a computer virus.

Here is the happy ending. After a quick online chat with Dropbox tech support, they simply reverted the entire file back to where it was just before the attack. :)

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough"
Albert Einstein

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  • EBEBRATT-Ed
    EBEBRATT-Ed Member Posts: 15,544
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    TG for that! I am not the most computer savy person so I would be lost. Glad they saved it
  • Erin Holohan Haskell
    Erin Holohan Haskell Member, Moderator, Administrator Posts: 2,293
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    Whew! That's great, @Zman.
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  • Harvey Ramer
    Harvey Ramer Member Posts: 2,239
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    My website got hacked.
    Lots of scoundrels with keyboards out there.
  • Fred
    Fred Member Posts: 8,542
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    You are so lucky @Zman ! You need to make sure that Engineer gets his PC cleaned (disc may need to be wiped clean and all software re-installed and that he has a good virus/security tool (set to auto update daily) on his PC before you ever let him have access to any of your files again.
  • Zman
    Zman Member Posts: 7,569
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    Fred said:

    You are so lucky @Zman ! You need to make sure that Engineer gets his PC cleaned (disc may need to be wiped clean and all software re-installed and that he has a good virus/security tool (set to auto update daily) on his PC before you ever let him have access to any of your files again.

    Oh, He is turned off. I also put almost everyone else as "read only". In reality, there are only a few people I want to have edit access.
    "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough"
    Albert Einstein

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