He's helped thousands of ransomware victims recover their files for free.
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Mon. Oct 28, 2019
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The Ransomware Superhero of Normal, Illinois
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Thanks to Michael Gillespie, an obscure programmer at a Nerds on Call repair store, hundreds of thousands of ransomware victims have recovered their files for free.
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