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Cryptolocker Threat
Some of you may of heard of a new ransomware virus called Cryptolocker, basically the virus infects your PC then encrypts all your files on your PC and any attached drive or Network drives and then locks it down and demands about £300 to give you the private encryption key to unencrypt your data
BBC News - Cryptolocker ransomware has 'infected about 250,000 PCs'
CryptoLocker Morphs to Spread Over USB Drives
I just witnessed this first hand on a mates work PC yesterday, lucky for him he had no valuable data on it so we just re formatted and re installed the OS - Simple BUT it got me thinking what if I got it, I had a scare last week when up popped up a Cheshire Police webpage claiming to have locked my browser and I needed to pay a £100 fine for illegal downloads and viewing porn (doesn't everyone ?) lol
Anyway to cut a long story short I came across a little program to stop Cryptlocker called Cryptoprevent which prevents the malware/virus installing on your PC
Info here > How To Fight The CryptoLocker Virus - Business Insider
Download it here > CryptoPrevent | Computer Technician - PC Repair Software |Foolish IT LLC
If you unsure I have checked the MD5 and SHA-256 and all is good but you may want to get to the program as I did through the Dell Virus and Spyware community
CryptoLocker, CryptoPrevent - Virus & Spyware Discussions Forum - Virus & Spyware - Dell Community
You should also make backups of all your data, if this gets you there is no chance to get the data back without paying the Ransome
Good Luck
Some of you may of heard of a new ransomware virus called Cryptolocker, basically the virus infects your PC then encrypts all your files on your PC and any attached drive or Network drives and then locks it down and demands about £300 to give you the private encryption key to unencrypt your data
BBC News - Cryptolocker ransomware has 'infected about 250,000 PCs'
CryptoLocker Morphs to Spread Over USB Drives
I just witnessed this first hand on a mates work PC yesterday, lucky for him he had no valuable data on it so we just re formatted and re installed the OS - Simple BUT it got me thinking what if I got it, I had a scare last week when up popped up a Cheshire Police webpage claiming to have locked my browser and I needed to pay a £100 fine for illegal downloads and viewing porn (doesn't everyone ?) lol
Anyway to cut a long story short I came across a little program to stop Cryptlocker called Cryptoprevent which prevents the malware/virus installing on your PC
Info here > How To Fight The CryptoLocker Virus - Business Insider
Download it here > CryptoPrevent | Computer Technician - PC Repair Software |Foolish IT LLC
If you unsure I have checked the MD5 and SHA-256 and all is good but you may want to get to the program as I did through the Dell Virus and Spyware community
CryptoLocker, CryptoPrevent - Virus & Spyware Discussions Forum - Virus & Spyware - Dell Community
You should also make backups of all your data, if this gets you there is no chance to get the data back without paying the Ransome
Good Luck