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We want to inform you about a new computer infection called Error Ransomware that was designed to infect your PC secretly and encrypt many of your personal files. Therefore, we recommend that you remove it from your PC. Paying the ransom is a bad idea because there is no guarantee that the cyber criminals will keep their end of the bargain. The sum of money is not stated because you have to contact the criminals to get information on how to pay it. One thing is for sure, however, that they will want you to pay in Bitcoins or some other crypto currency. Read more »

Balbaz Ransomware is a newly released ransomware-type computer infection that can encrypt your files and then demand that you pay a ransom to decrypt them. Therefore, an anti-malware program is a must to remove it as soon as it infects your PC or even before it could get on it in the first place. However, if you do not have such a program, then your files can be encrypted using Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) that will make your files useless piles of bytes. Therefore, protecting your PC from malware such as this one is vital because, otherwise, it can render your valuable files useless and there is no telling whether its developers will send you the decryption tool needed to decrypt them even after you have paid. Read more »

If you find that Globeimposter 2.0 Ransomware has attacked your PC, it is quite possible that you can say goodbye to most of your files. Our malware specialists at anti-spyware-101.com say that though the old version of this threat was cracked and you could recover your files for free, this new variant can be your biggest nightmare right now. Unfortunately, it is not possible to decrypt your files with a free tool yet, but we cannot say that one will not appear on the web in the near future. Hopefully, you have a recent backup that you can use to restore some or all of your personal files after you remove Globeimposter 2.0 Ransomware from your PC. If you do not have a backup, we still recommend that you remove this dangerous program because there is no other way that you could use your computer securely in the future. Please read our full article on this severe threat so that you learn how you can possibly prevent the next malicious attack from happening. Read more »

Crystal Ransomware is a harmful malicious application whose entrance brings many problems to users. The main problem is the loss of personal data. It will not leave a single image, document, video, or another important file intact if it ever successfully enters your system. We have to admit that this infection is not finished yet and currently encrypts files only in its author’s testing environment, but there is a huge possibility that it will be updated one day and, if this happens, it might show up on unprotected systems. You might be reading this article because you are a curious person, but we believe that some readers of this article have already encountered this infection. Those poor users must delete this ransomware infection as soon as possible. The version malware researchers working at anti-spyware-101.com have analyzed, i.e. the one that does not encrypt files, does not leave any ransom note for victims. In other words, it does not demand money, but we cannot promise that Crystal Ransomware will not want your money either if you encounter its new version. In any event, you must uninstall the ransomware infection from your system. You cannot do anything about its presence because this infection creates a point of execution, allowing it to launch automatically with the Windows OS, on a compromised machine. In other words, it will be active on your PC and might perform various undesirable activities. Read more »