Virus Name: .dmo file virus

Categories: Ransomware, Decryption Virus

Detailed Description of .dmo file virus

.dmo file virus is a ransomware. Nowadays, it become widely used by cybercriminal to impose ransom trap on computer users. .dmo file virus usually infiltrate computers through spam email attachments and free download programs. Once infiltrating the computer, .dmo file virus encrypts all the files in the hard drive with malicious file extension like cerber3, cerber, ccc or so. Then you will have trouble to open those files because all of them were locked with .dmo file virus codes. After that, it displays you a pop-up page to demand you to follow its instruction to buy decryption key which allegedly could recover your files.

Users are willing to pay money to avoid the serious problems so they will agree to pay money for restoring your files. But it is not a wise decision, because our researcher has found that the developers of .dmo file virus may just get the money but still infected the computer. So even they give you the key to recover the files, they will re-infect them sooner or later to ask for ransom fee again. Therefore, it does not suggest you to pay the fee. Instead, it is the right time to clean up all the related files of .dmo file virus to keep your system away from threats first, and then try the famous data recovery software to restore the infected files. A detailed guide for removing .dmo file virus and recommending some tools for recovering the files is attached.

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Virus Name: .lcphr file virus

Categories: Ransomware, Decryption Virus

Detailed Description of .lcphr file virus

.lcphr file virus is a ransomware. Nowadays, it become widely used by cybercriminal to impose ransom trap on computer users. .lcphr file virus usually infiltrate computers through spam email attachments and free download programs. Once infiltrating the computer, .lcphr file virus encrypts all the files in the hard drive with malicious file extension like cerber3, cerber, ccc or so. Then you will have trouble to open those files because all of them were locked with .lcphr file virus codes. After that, it displays you a pop-up page to demand you to follow its instruction to buy decryption key which allegedly could recover your files.

Users are willing to pay money to avoid the serious problems so they will agree to pay money for restoring your files. But it is not a wise decision, because our researcher has found that the developers of .lcphr file virus may just get the money but still infected the computer. So even they give you the key to recover the files, they will re-infect them sooner or later to ask for ransom fee again. Therefore, it does not suggest you to pay the fee. Instead, it is the right time to clean up all the related files of .lcphr file virus to keep your system away from threats first, and then try the famous data recovery software to restore the infected files. A detailed guide for removing .lcphr file virus and recommending some tools for recovering the files is attached.

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Virus Name: .Horon file virus

Categories: Ransomware, Decryption Virus

Detailed Description of .Horon file virus

.Horon file virus is a newly detected Ransomware that enters Windows OS through social networking and spam email. When you receive a Twitter or Facebook link from your friend whose computer have been infected by virus, .Horon file virus may sneak into your system silently. Besides, when you open a image and document file downloaded from spam email attachment, .Horon file virus may be activated as well. In case the ransomware is loaded, you will feel despairing because your personal files will all be encrypted by hacker.

Have you seen “What happened to your files” alert on your PC? If so, your PC is infected with .Horon file viruss. And when you see it, the first step should be removing it because it is tricky and malicious. You don’t need to bring in it purposely, but it is here with some normal behaviors, such as spam emails, porn websites, or fake links. In most of time, freeware bundle can also play an important role. So it is no need to prevent it coming because few of users can successfully do it.

All kinds of system files such as .avi, .mkv, .pdf, .xml, .doc, .png, .jpeg, .jpg, .ay, .md, .mdb and .dxg will all be encrypted with .Horon file virus. After that, the virus shows you a file recovering instruction on a wallpaper or TXT file or popup webpage, which demand you to send money in form of bitcoin to their account. The ransom fees is usually over $300 and will be required to paid within 48 hours. .Horon file virus warns that if you do not pay it within the period, and if you attempt to recover them with other methods, you will never have chance to get them back at all. It is horrible to every victim while reading such random messages, though most of people do not want to pay and do not trust the hacker, our researcher found that lots of them pay the ransom fees because those personal files were so important. But was it the right decision? Not really, many victims paid for nothing, and their files cannot be restored. You may get scammed by the hacker and you may give them a chance to steal you banking account, so we suggest all victims not buying the suspicious decryption key from hacker, it may be a big trap.

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Virus Name: .COPAN file virus

Categories: Ransomware, Decryption Virus

Detailed Description of .COPAN file virus

.COPAN file virus is a special ransomware and it infiltrates covertly with trojan which can be infected from unknown websites or spam emails attachements. .COPAN file virus will encrypted the files on the computer and none applications can open them at all. It will not totally destroy the operating system or stop users using the internet. Because the files encrypted are used for threatening users. If they are important enough, users will have no choose. And it can smoothly get the money.

.COPAN file virus will give you a ransom note, titled as readme.txt, on the desktop, and it stops the access to all the files. Some of the files’ name are changed, and some are added special suffix, such as micro, locky, or vvv. The decryption is expensive and you have to make money with 24 hours. Or you will lose the files totally. We don’t believe all harms will be over after it receives the money. And more harms including information leakage will happen. So don’t pay it. You need guides to get rid of .COPAN file virus ransomware. And we should help you .

Besides, it is not sure that the decryption key from .COPAN file virus extension is always valid or the files can come back. Users cannot get refund or connect it anymore after the payment is made. .COPAN file viruss extension ransomware is malicious and it is not reasonable to keep it on the computer. And please recover the files with legitimate data recovery tools.

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Virus Name: [LOCKED] file virus

Categories: Ransomware, Decryption Virus

Detailed Description of [LOCKED] file virus

[LOCKED] file virus is a severely malicious computer virus made to encrypt your files with weird extensions such as [LOCKED] file virus, .locked, or .crypt. This virus usually enters Windows systems through spam email attachments and freeware installers. For instance, when you open an attachments of spam email which allegedly is a payment invoice for your payment on EBay, [LOCKED] file virus will invade your computer without your knowledge. Its purpose is to force you to pay a ransom fee to get the so-called decryption key which can recover your infected files.

[LOCKED] file virus will encrypt the files or folders on your PC like any of ransomware. And it also boasts the function to analyze which ones are your preferences so it will blackmail them with you. When you contact them for help, you are introduced to buy bitcoin which is not necessarily a malware or virus but contains thousands of side effects. These sites are actually fishing websites and your privacy will be stolen in this situation.

The ransom fees is usually over $400 and there is no prove that the decryption key from [LOCKED] file virus can really restore the encrypted files, therefore we suggest all victims not sending money to the hackers to get the questionable decryption key. The right thing to do is to delete [LOCKED] file virus from system ASAP so that the amount of infected files can be minimized and then you will have chance to recover your files with some legitimate data recovery software.

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Virus Name: .vesad file virus

Categories: Ransomware, Decryption Virus

Detailed Description of .vesad file virus

.vesad file virus should be classified as a malicious ransomware and it is an infection that still in update at present. Definitely, if you once encounter .vesad file virus ransomware, you should spend all efforts to get rid of it or it could do more harms after it is updated. .vesad file virus can be remove with manual guides but later you still need to recover the files with data recovery applications. So we will advise you to use an all-in-one application which can remove .vesad file virus and recover the data with them. We provide our recommendation in the end of this post.

The main infections caused by .vesad file virus is the encryption. .vesad file virus encrypt all the files on the computer with professional encryption algorithm. It will not freeze the operating system and not destroy all the files as the locked files are used to make money. It leaves the ransom page which will pop up to tell you that your personal files are encrypted by .vesad file virus, and you can purchase a private decryption key from the appointed source. And it limits you to make payment within 24 hours or they files will be completely disabled.

We figure out that it encrypts the files with AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) or RSA cryptosystem, and it gets unique decryption key for each infection. So the key cannot be processed manually. But it is not a good way to pay this ransom. We believe removal tools should be involved to get rid of .vesad file virus first and then recover the files and data. And later, you should back the most important data regularly.

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