The file encryption virus.
Crypt0L0cker
I am normally the guy that infects you with a virus. However, this time the stars were in perfect alignment.
On my laptop I have Windows Live Writer installed. Upgrading from IE9 breaks WLW WYSIWYG environment. So I have IE9 on that laptop. But I never use IE9... Ohh.. but I do!
WLW uses the IE engine to download and render your blog's templates when you add them.
So I acquired some blogs from someone and kept them on a separate VPS just for this reason... and when I imported one of them into WLW it ran the virus code that blog was infected with. But... even then it wouldn't have affected me, except for the fact that I was using IE9 and it uses Flash, which is what the virus was attacking. This particular version of the virus only worked when you ran Flash with IE9 or newer. I only use Chrome on the laptop when surfing and Chrome keeps Flash updated for you.
So it began encrypting my shit.
But... I had mapped my network drive to do some file transfers lickity split and forgot to unmap it. So my GF's photo collection got toasted. Which made it the worst virus I ever had to deal with.
