Anti-spyware 101

Documents, photos, archives, videos, and other types of personal files are not safe if Matrix-NEWRAR Ransomware invades your Windows operating system. This malignant infection slithers into operating systems that are not protected and whose owners are not as careful as they should be. The infection can hide itself in malicious downloaders and even spam email attachments, and so if you click, download, and open carelessly, you could face malware. Besides deleting Matrix-NEWRAR Ransomware, you also need to rethink your own behavior to ensure that you do not encounter malicious threats again. Another thing o think about is the protection of your operating system. While you might be able to evade threats by being cautious, you want to install security software (anti-malware) to help you out. The bonus is that it can also automatically remove threats that already exist on your computer. Of course, this is not the only option you have, and you can learn more about that by reading this report. Read more »

No_More_Ransom Ransomware is among the newest versions of Rapid Ransomware. It is quite a typical ransomware infection, so we cannot list any unique facts about it. It simply locks files on affected computers immediately after it reaches them. Ransomware infections are often designed to damage users’ personal files so that it would be easier to extract money from them. If you ever fall victim to No_More_Ransom Ransomware, you should not pay money to cyber criminals. You simply do not know whether sending money will really help you to get your files back. Encrypted files are an annoying but not exactly a huge problem if you have a backup with all your files on an external storage device because you could retrieve them with a click of a button. Do not forget that you must delete No_More_Ransom Ransomware first to prevent your files from being encrypted once again. Unfortunately, there might be no other free tools to fix encrypted files. Please continue reading this report if you have no idea how to erase the ransomware infection from the system. Read more »

Pottieq Ransomware is known to be a variation of Aura Ransomware. The ransomware infection has been developed to lock files on affected computers, but, luckily, it does not encrypt any system files. This means that you could continue using your computer normally. Of course, you could no longer access any of your personal files. This threat is quite sophisticated malicious software because it, unlike simpler ransomware infections, copies itself to %ALLUSERSPROFILE% and drops a ransom picture in the Startup folder so that it would be opened for the victim automatically after the system restart. The ransom note dropped let users know that the decryption service is not free: “our assistance is not free, so expect to pay a reasonable price for our decrypting service.” Ransomware developers always want money from users they manage to affect, but you should not give them a cent. We say so not without reason. It is very likely that you will not get anything from cyber criminals if you make a payment. In other words, the chances are high that your files will stay encrypted no matter what you do, so, in our opinion, it would be best to delete Pottieq Ransomware fully and then try out all alternative ways to decrypt files. For example, you can restore them from a backup. Second, you can wait until the free decryptor is released. Third, you can use available data recovery tools. Unfortunately, we cannot promise that you could fix all your files. Read more »

If you believe that Wise Ransomware has encrypted or deleted your personal files, we might have good news for you. It appears that this self-proclaimed encryptor is just a screen-locker, and, in fact, it does not do anything to harm your personal files. Anti-Spyware-101.com researchers have found this while analyzing the obtained sample of the infection. Is it possible that new, more malicious variants of this threat could emerge? That is a possibility that you need to be aware of, but we hope that that will not be the case. Regardless of what happens, if your system is locked, the first thing you want to do is unlock it to check what is actually going on with your personal files. Needless to say, if you find that they are not encrypted or deleted, the only thing you need to worry about is the removal of Wise Ransomware. And what if files are encrypted or erased? Even if that is the case, you do not want to communicate with the creator of the infection and then pay money for some decryption key. Read more »

New malicious threats emerge every day, and you must protect yourself and the operating system against all of them. Parasite HTTP RAT is a Trojan that is exceptionally dangerous because it can evade detection by security software as well. So, even if you have employed anti-malware software to keep the system malware-free, you could still become a victim of this threat. That depends on the security software you use, as well as your own behavior. Behavior is important because the Trojan uses deception to trick Windows users into executing it themselves. The creator of the infection does not even need to worry too much about how the threat is spread. If users are tricked into letting this devious infection in, their virtual security is put at risk. Anti-Spyware-101.com research team warns that the remote-access Trojan (RAT) can steal passwords, and that can cause many problems. So, do you need to delete Parasite HTTP RAT, and how should you do it? You can find information about the removal of the malicious Trojan in this report. Read more »

Cyber criminals behind the old ransomware infection LockCrypt Ransomware have not stopped doing their dirty work. As specialists have noticed, BDKR Ransomware, which has turned out to be the new version of this malicious application, has been recently spotted by malware analysts. The malicious application is quite destructive, they say, but, of course, it shares the primary goal with its predecessor. To be more specific, there is no doubt that it has also been developed by cyber criminals to extract money from users easier. BDKR Ransomware not only encrypts personal files once it is launched but also drops its own copy to the %WINDIR% folder next to system files and creates a point of execution (PoE). As a consequence, it continues working in the background even after the system restart and kills all launched applications, which clearly shows that it is quite sophisticated malware. Luckily, it does not affect Task Manager – you could delete BDKR Ransomware from your system manually. It is not a problem if you do not know anything about the removal of malicious software because our specialists have prepared the step-by-step manual removal guide to make cleaning the system an easier task. Read more »