I have Avast running on all of our computers. But the bugger got passed it.
What really torked me off was that Larry saw the note pop up on his screen but didn't tell me anything about it for almost an hour later. By then the damage was done. His machine isn't such a loss as I have an Identical one just sitting here powered off. What sucks is that this virus scans all drive letters and it found our network data.
I have a backup running continuously in the background, but my fear is double-edged. The virus may already be in the backup set and worse, may have actually corrupted the backup set itself. Worst of all, the way it's designed, it deletes the shadow copies of changed files as it encrypts them. So, there are no 'previous versions' left.
Fortunately, (fortunately?) I had a major disk crash back in the spring and I still have those recovered drives that I can use to rebuild a lot of corrupted data.
I've been running various scanners on his machine all day to make sure it's now clean.
