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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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Figure 27-18 Gator Corporation’s acknowledgment warning

If Movieland was a problem back in 2005, what are the big spyware

applications today? Unfortunately, I can’t tell you—not because it’s a secret,

but because we don’t know about them yet. You’ll probably only run into

spyware these days on the CompTIA A+ 1002 exam.

Ransomware As bad as spyware can be, at least you still have access to

your data. Ransomware, on the other hand, encrypts all the data it can gain

access to on a system. To top it off, many versions of ransomware can even

encrypt data on mapped network drives!

Once it has locked up all your data, the ransomware application pops up a

message asking for money (often bitcoins) to decrypt your data. Also, to

encourage a faster payment, this ransom is presented with a timer that, when

it reaches 0, triggers deletion of the encryption keys, leaving you with a drive

full of scrambled data.

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