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		AsakiIssa on Oct 17, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: You’re infected—if you want to see your data again... I know a customer that got hit by this Tuesday morning. Unsurprisingly, Avast did nothing. I just told her the bad news and clean-installed Windows. I have tried to find the private key with sample files, using known file byte headers, the public key and brute force on the private key. Sadly, no luck yet.

duskwuff on Oct 18, 2013 [–]

That's assuming the private key is even reused. If they're generating a new key for each user (which they very well could be), you're boned.

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