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# I got partially ransomwared.
- URL: https://pupontech.com/i-got-partially-ransomwared/
- Published: 2021-09-24T12:01:04.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-19T21:00:24.000Z
- Author: AY
- Tags: Tech ramblings of the (HR, Day,Week,Month), antivirus, piracy, #Import 2025-08-23 21:22

I was trying to find a crack for the app, Seer and made the mistake of running them withought a sandbox.

The program ran a crypto miner which kept getting blocked by my firewall. But in the background my files were being renamed to .koom. Luckily I caught it as well as restored from backups within a hr.

I only run simplewall and no AV so if I make a mistake like that I’m pretty screwed. (Looking at moving to Malwarebytes premium.)

TLDR: Use a sandbox and have quality backups with versioning.