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How to remove malicious Dutan Ransomware from your system?

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Understanding Dutan ransomware According to researches, ransomware of DJVU family is making its presence feel since December 2018. DJVU ransomware family has a new feather in its cap! Developers called it – Dutan ransomware! This malicious crypto virus, alike its cousins follow the same methodology and motive. Let us understand in detail, the menace caused by .dutan file virus. Once in the system, .dutan ransomware immediately searches for the targeted files. These files are easily found on any PCs these day, it includes, audio-video files, images, documents & backup files. Hence, we can say that .jpeg, .pdf, .html, .docx, .mp4, .mpeg are a few favourite extensions of Dutan ransomware. Once these files are located in the affected system, it initiates the file encryption process. Under this process, malware makes the files unreadable by appending a unique extension to the filenames. .dutan will be attached if your files are infected by Dutan virus. In addition, ...

LockerGoga ransomware – The newbie Computer threat

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Guide to remove LockerGoga Ransomware According to researches, the notorious LockerGoga ransomware exhibits certain different behavior. When compared with the other ransomware families , there a few special functions that LockerGoga virus possesses. One of the major differences recorded is the ability of LockerGoga to generate variety of processes to speed up the file encryption.   Threat Summary Name LockerGoga Type Ransomware Category Malware Targeted OS Windows Targeted Bowser Google Chrome, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox Understanding LockerGoga ransomware This is the malicious program which is categorized as Ransomware. The ultimate aim of the nasty LockerGoga ransomware is to encrypt the files and blackmail the victims. Once the ransomware successfully locked the files it is impossible to decrypt them manually. Once the files are s...

How to remove Davda ransomware from system

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Guide to remove Davda Ransomware The DJVU ransomware is making its presence felt since December 2018. Encrypting files from thousands of Windows OS, the DJVU family is back with this new strain – Davda Ransomware . Once, this ransomware attack the system, it immediately looks for the targeted files. The files which are targeted are commonly found on most Computers these days. It includes audio – video files, images, document files and what not! Hence, following are a few extensions, which are targeted by Davda Ransomware virus : .docx, .pdf, .html, .txt, .jpeg, .png, .gif, .mp3, .mpeg, .mpg. After corrupting the targeted files, a ransom demanding message is generated in ‘readme.txt’ file. As a result, the victim is forced to pay the money, in order to restore the files. Threat Summary Name Davda Type Ransomware Category Malware Targeted OS Windows Targeted Browser ...