>Largest customer called today reporting a Not a Table error. Investigation showed total corruption of all DBFs, all high-ASCII characters when viewed in Notepad. Excel files in the directory showed similar results. In the process of restoring from backup, but we're at a loss to determine cause, and virus looms at the top of the list - anyone know any we can research?
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>Chris.
We had several customers hit by some sort of encryptor virus which appears to be part of a ransomware suite. I don't recall the actual name of the virus, though the general behavior is that it scrambles the contents of files, then another program (a fake antivirus) "detects" the virus and offers to "fix" the files for a fee. From what I'd seen of the damaged files, it appears doubtful that you'd get your data back by paying that fee (some were simply filled with NUL, some were truncated, others were filled with random junk).