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by hughlomas 4591 days ago
As far as I'm aware, CryptoLocker demands $300 or 2 bitcoins in the first 3 days. The average person isn't going to try to get bitcoins to pay, and right now no one would even want to, 2 bitcoins are far more expensive than the $300 option. Supposedly after the first three days your only option are bitcoins, but the price jumps to 10.

Symantec estimates that 3% of people that are infected choose to pay [0]. So what fraction of that pay in bitcoins?

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/money/2013/oct/19/cryptolocker-at...