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Cryptolocker

  • 03-01-2014 10:42PM
    #1
    lillycool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 72 ✭✭


    If anyone has any advice on this would be grateful. Newish laptop 2 months old. Not many files on it but today seems to be infected with cryptolocker. Will probably try to bring it somwhere tomorrow to be fixed, so annoyed. Dont understand whats the point of paying for McAfee when this crap then happens.


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  • #2
    tallaghtfornia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 676 ✭✭✭tallaghtfornia


    lillycool wrote: »
    If anyone has any advice on this would be grateful. Newish laptop 2 months old. Not many files on it but today seems to be infected with cryptolocker. Will probably try to bring it somwhere tomorrow to be fixed, so annoyed. Dont understand whats the point of paying for McAfee when this crap then happens.

    Hi Lillycool,

    Have you tried a system restore ?


  • #3
    lillycool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 72 ✭✭lillycool


    tallaghtfornia wrote: »
    Hi Lillycool,

    Have you tried a system restore ?
    Thanks no not sure how to do that. I think I may just leave it switched off bring it to a repair shop tomorrow in case I make things worse.


  • #4
    tallaghtfornia
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 676 ✭✭✭tallaghtfornia


    lillycool wrote: »
    Thanks no not sure how to do that. I think I may just leave it switched off bring it to a repair shop tomorrow in case I make things worse.

    Hi lillycool your mad if you do that they will charge you a fortune - I assume that you have Windows 8 have a look at this you tube video how to do to a system restore. The one thing you might lose are your files as the ransomware uses an RSA key but as you said you only had a few.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsY_FnyJzdo

    Try that or if you download the below that should remove it.

    Malwarebytes.

    http://www.malwarebytes.org/

    I would not give any of my hard earned money to those 'pc repair' places.


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