Phishing Attack: An important message regarding your HughesNet account

[donsjgm]

Amen to that!

[Gwalk900]

This also a good time to bring up the point of the value of having a "system image"

Never trust a machine that has been compromised ....

If you get "had", play it safe, reload your system from a known good system image and learn from your mistake.

You really can't be 100% positive of any "cleanup" efforts.

Backup, Backup, Backup

[El Dorado Netwo]

Right, and that system image needs to be backed up on a drive that can't be accessed from your computer. The latest Crypto viruses are also deleting shadow volume copies if they can get to them.

[donsjgm]

If there was ever more IMPORTANT ADVICE, Gwalk has said it!!!
I keep an independent clone of my HDD as well as a running backup.
Notice Top Right of the attached screenshot:

[donsjgm]

Mac users,
Follow Alan's advice!
Time Machine, while a great asset is subject to corruption of malware too.
While I do use TM, I don't rely solely on it alone.
Any Mac user who wants instructions to use their Terminal and dd commands to make clones of their HDD need just to ask.