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Good to know; I've only dealt with a couple and they were on workstations that encrypted files on mapped network shares - vssadmin wouldn't have any access to remove shadow copies on the file server, and in all but one of those cases we had both shadow copies locally on the file server and offsite file backups in place (backups only for the last).


Yes, I meant try to delete... My first impression about CryptoWall is that it was hacked together quicker than CryptoLocker. It doesn't bother with generating a symmetric key per file but rather seems to use a single asymmetric key. It also apparently make a copy of the file before encrypting and doesn't zero-out after deleting the plain text file (see another of my comment in this thread)


* asymmetric key pair




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