need help with pc URGENT

Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
K

kacpercusen

Distinguished
Jan 26, 2015
373
1
18,815
i cant run steam i have a week competetive cooldown and cant run * anytihng, i have about 5000 url files that lead to a site that is saying my files are encrypterd and i need to pay 0.1 bitcoin, i contacted microsoft but there idiots so what do i do im slowly losing access to everytrhing
 
Solution
USAFRet


OK, then maybe you're looking at step 4 above.

Your system is hosed. You can stare at it and hope real hard it will automagically decrypt itself. You'll probably be sitting there for a long time.
Or, you can do something else.
Sort by date Sort by votes
USAFRet

USAFRet

Titan
Moderator
Mar 16, 2013
171,820
18,143
184,590


1. This is what backups are for. You just retrieve the system from the backup you made the other day. Oh, you didn't? OK then...

2. Some variants of that have been reverse engineered, and you can maybe decrypt whatever they did.
Read more here:
https://noransom.kaspersky.com/
http://www.darkreading.com/cloud/cisco-offers-free-decryption-tool-for-ransomware-victims/d/d-id/1320188
http://www.idigitaltimes.com/cryptolocker-virus-removal-how-decrypt-or-restore-encrypted-files-and-remove-334250

or
3. Wipe and reinstall the whole system

or
4. Pay them. They will probably be standup guys, and give you the decryption key

5. Whatever you did to get infected like that...don't do that again.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
USAFRet

USAFRet

Titan
Moderator
Mar 16, 2013
171,820
18,143
184,590


OK, then maybe you're looking at step 4 above.

Your system is hosed. You can stare at it and hope real hard it will automagically decrypt itself. You'll probably be sitting there for a long time.
Or, you can do something else.
 
Upvote 1 Downvote
Solution
RealBeast

RealBeast

Titan
Moderator
Sep 13, 2010
17,112
474
104,790
Microsoft are the idiots, why for having infected your computer by going places they shouldn't?

 
Upvote 1 Downvote
Barty1884

Barty1884

Retired Moderator
Apr 16, 2015
22,250
1,350
108,740
Which OS do you have? If W10 or W8.1, you can download the ISO from MS and create a bootable USB. You can then boot from it, format your drive & reinstall the OS.

Unfortunately that doesn't help you get any of your files back.............but you do get the first hand learning experience of why you should always backup your rig.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom