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Trojan.Redirector is an application designed to generate advertising revenue for its developers. Unlike adware programs or other advertising-supported software, it is a malicious program that installs itself without the user’s permission. Our researchers found out that it can display unreliable advertising content while you are using google.com or different search engines on the Internet Explorer browser. Apparently, the malware can replace original results with advertising. To make matters worse, this Trojan tries to hide its presence on the system, so it might be hard to notice that something is wrong. However, if you suspect that this threat might have settled on your computer, we advise you to read the article and learn about it in more detail. Also, since this is a serious threat and it is crucial to get rid of it before anything bad happens, we are adding removal instructions below the article. Read more »

KawaiiLocker Ransomware is a malicious application that employs the encryption algorithm AES-192 to encrypt personal files. It will encrypt the first 192 bytes of your pictures, presentations, documents, music, and videos thus making it impossible to open them. Once if finishes encrypting personal files it finds on the computer, it connects to the domain 7476357288-0.myjino.ru which uses an IP address 81.177.139.161. Therefore, we suspect that it stores all encryption keys there. You should remove KawaiiLocker Ransomware right now in order not to allow it to act like that. You should do that to protect files you create/download in the future too. Ransomware infections are serious threats that are usually hard to remove; however, it should not be very hard for you to erase KawaiiLocker Ransomware because you will have to remove the malicious file only. We will tell you more about the deletion of this ransomware in the following paragraphs. Read more »

Do not take chances with a program that goes by the name of Batman_good@aol.com Ransomware. As its name suggests, it is yet another ransomware application. If there is one thing that you should know about malicious programs that belong to this category is that their removal is essential because they can have lasting and devastating effects since they are fully capable of locking and in some cases even corrupting your personal data without any notification. On top of that, this malicious application is also known to compromise your overall virtual security as it could prove to be used as a backdoor into your operating system by other potentially harmful applications. Due to such inner workings, the malware researchers at our internal labs urge you not to waste any time and delete Batman_good@aol.com Ransomware in its entirety. To find out more about this malware and to learn how to terminate it, you need to read the rest of this article. Read more »

Supportfriend@india.com Ransomware is one of many CrySIS-engine-based releases to have hit the Internet this summer. Its sole purpose is to infect your computer, encrypt your files and then offer you to purchase a decryption tool to decrypt them. You can risk buying it, but there is no guarantee that you will get it, and this decryption tool does not come cheap. Therefore, suggest removing this ransomware and recovering your files from external drives, provided that you have backups. In this short, article, we will discuss this malicious program’s distribution methods, features and functions, and ways you can get rid of it, so, if your computer has become infected with this ransomware, we invite you to continue reading. Read more »

A new ransomware infection Crypt0 Ransomware has been detected recently by specialists at anti-spyware-101.com. It has been immediately put into a category of ransomware infections because researchers have found out that it encrypts personal files within a few seconds. It seems that Crypt0 Ransomware is created by amateurs, and it should not become very popular; however, it is still a threat to files users keep on their computers because it can really lock them with the RSA-2048 encryption. Of course, there is a reason why it acts this way – cyber criminals have created Crypt0 Ransomware to encrypt users’ files in order to be able to extort money from them easily. Even though it is not written anywhere that the file decryptor is not free, you will definitely be offered to make a payment to get the decryptor if you contact cyber criminals by writing an email to fndimaf@gmail.com. Read more »

Seven_legion@aol.com Ransomware is a newcomer in a dangerous ransomware family that is built on the CrySIS Ransomware engine and also includes Calipso.god@aol.com Ransomware and Melme@india.com Ransomware that are the other most recent threats. Finding out about the presence of any of these infections could be a shocker. The truth is that when this ransomware sneaks onto your machine, there will be a big loss unless you are a careful person or you have learnt from other people’s mistake and regularly save a backup copy of your files. Another chance for you to get your files back after this malware encrypts them is to transfer the ransom fee to the cyber criminals behind this attack. However, experience and victim reports show that this may not be a good idea. In fact, in most cases victims do not get anything in return for their money. But, of course, the decision is all yours. If you want to give it a shot, good luck with that. In any case, our malware researchers at anti-spyware-101.com suggest that you remove Seven_legion@aol.com Ransomware if you want to secure your computer. Let us explain our reasons and share some important details with you. Read more »

Calipso.god@aol.com Ransomware can slither onto your operating system without your knowledge even if it is actually you yourself who let it onto your computer and activate it. This dangerous malware program can encrypt all your personal files within one single minute. Ransomware programs are one of the most severe threats you can face in the virtual world since you may easily lose all your stored information and files in a single hit and you would not even see it coming. Since this attack is all about extorting money from you, it is obvious that you will be asked to contact the cyber criminals hiding behind this threat and then transfer the demanded fee to them in exchange for the private key. This key is essential for the recovery of your files and is kept hidden on a secret remote server. The only problem is that if the connection between your machine and this server breaks up, you will never get this private key no matter how fast you pay the ransom fee. Read more »