Tuesday, October 22, 2013

CryptoLocker Ransomware

  There is a new virus in town. It`s called the Cryptolocker Ransomware virus. It will encrypt the files on your hard drive making them inaccessible. As of late there is not any fix for it. This is generally a virus that infects network computers. There are some precautions you can take to try and prevent it. It usually comes in through email posing as something from ups, fedex etc....
  I am providing a link to bleeping computers, because they have good information. It will be at the end of the post. The one thing I have heard is paying the $300 ransom to these crooks to try and remove the encryption. This sounds ridiculous to me. You are giving your credit card number to the crooks with your private information. I will keep my eyes open for any fixes for this that come along.

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/cryptolocker-ransomware-information

Thanks for reading and be careful.

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