Bare with me, hardware/software exp., until 2000. Dabbled since then severe ransomware problem toasted everything, desperate for help.
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Hello everyone, my name is Paul, new here and new netgate owner, and I have been fighting a group, don't know whom/where yet, but have enormous amounts of data. Bare with me as I try to explain timeline (2 1/2 years total and 9 months since the first big hit 2 weeks no services at all, Google could not get fiber to work, Verizon could not find my acct, and apple was helpless also.) 1 month later, took everything down and it took 7 weeks b4 any communication, same story with apple, Verizon, Google, plus 2nd level verification couldn't be used because they changed password, and apple is bound inside won't help with pword. Also cars computer got cooked and no vehicle since Jan.
I'll skip over much here, but I now own literally every virus/malware program made. None have stopped it, none found any most of time. McAfee lost 5 computers while setting them up (new Asus laptops, 2 at a time), stinger would occasionally find a particular software, Norton failed, it was on all pc's along with McAfee digital secure and home secure from Verizon. All software would be turned off later, or next day, 100's of support calls, no explanation, tech support always was escalated to 2 or seniors, still no result. Kaspersky made most headway, was inside a dieing pc and on phone, told me their software was not installed, I told him I was looking at it on my scree they got booted out of PC, phone went dead, mo emails or phone calls either way worked. I knew I was looking for wrong thing then, read everything, tried everything for bleeping computers, portable apps and majorgeeks, etc. Made headway and found their vdisksk, vm's, ramdisks, memdisks, oracle, SQL, fake bios,, drivers changed,processor to AMD Instead of Intel, etc.
Not one company has identified, and it has morphed and used different software many times Win 7 and server 2093, now up to Win 10 enterprise and server2016. I have tried everything. Learned a few Linux pkgs, no expert but I can get by.
That's background without specifics. Filed with FBI, DoJ, notified DoD due to previous TS's banks worked on it, lost to s of $, ins. And house was at foreclosure because I could not get into accts. Bank has been putting $ back slowly, ins. Is a fight but should replace, etc.
Finally after all my digging I ran across offense, it was a fight to get it downloaded, literally, I had to go somewhere else to do it. Also found tron, made significant headway, and opnvpn, an off combination, but I got my whole house running for a week! Lol! offense ran on a little ouvislite PC with two USB/Ethernet adapters.
Now to my need: I had some insurance $ come in and got as much replacement eqpt that I could. I have multiple new cells, all different providers.and two isp's Google 1g fiber and Spectrum 1/2 g. Bought a netgate sg-1100, a cujo, a mini, 2 raspberry pi 4's, new Asus rt-ax88 router, managed switches and will eliminate a large portion of wifi with Ethernet. 10 security cams, 5 Echo Alexa devices, smart garage, smart lights, etc,
As I have been away from industry I am outdated and have been relearning, all the new things, have Azure, AWS both unused really, but I am greatly concerned about keeping all clean as I've lost, and learned) along the way, this all has to be new, I know where all is hidden in memory, partitions on ssd's and usb's can't even be seen with diskpart, so I do not want to initiate loading back in myself. I have a good idea for layout and hate to ask, as it's not something I've done much, but I am confident that the netgate will keep them from getting out of getting in, (they are live people, each a specialist) and I have gone toe to toe with several, found hidden ips going mostly to different Verizon biz units, fungbox found spoofed routers, etc. But stories for another time, fingbox is dead.
Any advice where to put routers in line, switches, anything that would deny service to them, they open thousands of ports, listening and established, well over 500 sym links, hard links, jumps and I can find boone that can give me info how to kill..
Ok, chatty Cathy needs a break. Going since yesterday morning g with FBI, ins, bank, running cabling If you need me to move this to another place, I will, I didn't see an area that encompassed all
Everybody needs a crying part, here's mine, Widowmaker heart attack destroyed over half my heart 2 years, so retired forced, spine is collapsing from poor blood flow, little more time, not a lot, yeah, I want these hacks out so I can turn my TV on more than 1 day and watch TV, and have Alexa tell me what time it is! Lol!
I really find it hard to even say all this stuff, it is ludicrous. Oh, I said I have Azure and AWS, but I haven't been able to stay on long enough to use them for benefit, quick tips from experienced are welcomed!
Sorry for the novela, but I think pfsense netgate new eqpt, is my only hope left.
Thanks in advance, justanoldpirate2. #ransomeware, alware #security #networking #multipledevices #theft