Important Must Read – New Ransomware Virus Attack

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Hey everyone since Microsoft offered Windows 10 upgrade for free a new Ransomware virus has been released. The Teslacrypt virus was sent to people by email starting in April of this year. The virus is disguised as an email from Microsoft. Many people believed that Microsoft was sending them information about upgrading their computers to Windows 10. However, when they opened the file a ransomware was set lose on your computer. What does this mean to you? 1. The virus locks and encrypts your files. It will encrypt your word documents, pictures, and other files. These files can no longer be opened. 2. The encrypted files will look like this: name.pdf.ccc or it could be any other file name ending with .ccc. 3. Your original files are deleted off your computer and replaced with these encrypted files. What can you do? 1. On November 10th Microsoft released a fix for the different ransomware viruses. 2. Go direct to Microsoft download center and search for KB890830 3. Download this update to your computer. 4. Open the update and scan your computer. The new update removes any malware and Trojans off your operating system. If this doesn’t remove the malware and Trojans you’ll need to download Bitdefender and do a complete scan of your hard drive. Once the malware and Trojans are removed you can now try and recover your encrypted files. This is tricky and takes some skill. The simplest way is to restore your operating system to an earlier date. Otherwise, you’ll need to use Shadow Explorer to find a shadow copy of your data files. The easiest way to prevent all these problems is to never to open any emails with Windows 10 offers. Microsoft never sends an email to anyone. You will always have an app icon on your task bar from Microsoft. Keep your antivirus programs and Windows updates. Let me tell you this is no fun to try and clean out. I have been cleaning out a few people’s computers recently and this new ransomware Trojan is not easy to get rid of.