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This is a little trickier for users who have caught a dose of GPcode, which, as calls to the The H's associates at heise c't hotline prove, is once more on the rise. This is because this piece of malware encrypts the user's files. The encryption algorithm used is state of the art. GPcode creats a randomly generated 256-bit AES key on each infected system, which it uses to encrypt a number of files including all .doc, .rtf, Excel and PDF files.
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Nice!
The moral of the story is always keep safe backups of your entire data. And screw the crooks!
