Ransomware: How to recover your encrypted files, the last guide. | Homeland Security Degrees
Ransomware: How to recover your encrypted files, the last guide. | Homeland Security Degrees
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In this guide, we will explain how to recover encrypted files focusing on the Data-Locker Ransomware that targets the Windows operating system.
Why my system asks me to pay?
A ransomware is a computer malware that limits the access of a system and ask for a ransom in order to remove that restriction.
The restriction applied to the system can change in the time and can be realized in various ways.
Based on the restriction applied on the system we can recognize two kinds of ransomware based on their behaviors:
Pc-Locker Ransomware:
They block the system showing a ransom page on the computer desktop where they intimidat…
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More great information is available at http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/cryptolocker-ransomware-information#decrypt.
The White Hat decrypter is available at https://www.decryptcryptolocker.com/. Emsisoft has an updated decrypter here; http://blog.emsisoft.com/2015/01/04/new-ransomware-alert-cryptolocker-copycat-pclock-discovered/
You can use the Windows Group or Local Policy Editor to create Software Restriction Policies that block executables from running when they are located in specific paths. For more information on how to configure Software Restriction Policies, please see these articles from MS:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310791
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc786941(v=ws.10).aspx
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