Ransomware: A Dangerous Malware

Ransomware is kind of a dangerous malware that attacks the victim's system and encrypts it until and unless the victim agrees to pay some ransom to the attacker. After paying the ransom only, victims get the decryption code from the attacker to access the files again. The ransomware can cost the victim a high price to get back access to their files and computers.

Ransomware can attack the victim's computer in many different ways from which the most common attack is phishing in which attackers send some mail to the victim computer, which after opening it, this malware can access the important files of the victim and then encrypting them.

How to remove ransomware?

For the ransomware removal, users have to follow the following steps

• Firstly, users have to reboot their system OS to the safe mode.

• Secondly, if the system has antimalware software, then follow the next step or if not, then the user has to install it.

• In the third step, users have to run the antimalware software to find a dangerous ransomware program.

• Lastly, users have to reboot their system as normal.

Alternatively, users should keep some tools for ransomware recovery so that without paying any ransom to the attacker, users can access its data, for this user should keep backup of important files and folder at a somewhere safe place.

Some features that ransomware recovery tools should have

• Users must shift towards that kind of backup tool whose frequency of backing up data is fast.

• The backup tool used must have a long duration of storing data, and that can sustain for a longer time.

• Systems must have antimalware software installed in it along with the data protection tool.

• Backup tools must be capable of displaying alert to the users that may cause the sign of ransomware like cryptolocker, etc.

Conclusion

Users need protection from this kind of malware, which can cause trouble to them by accessing their important files and folders. Users must be careful about these kinds of attacks by having proper defense system against them like antimalware software, antivirus software, etc.

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