Tutenkhamun A friend of mine got his PC infected with this cryptowall.. It has basically taken over all of his images and other files and rendered them useless.. The files are there size wize but he cant access them.. Its asking him to pay 500$ in order to get all his file decrypted. I was wondering has any of you guys seen this before? And is there a way to fix this?
Alloushi it's called a ransomware, read about it here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransomware it's too late, your friend is stupid though.
Stygmata When CryptoWall encrypts a file it first makes a copy of it, encrypts the copy, and then deletes the original. you can use file recovery software to recover some files
ironman In the company where i work, we got infected with Cryptowall 3.0, let me tell you what happened 1) Cryptowall encrypts local files on the infected machine + encrypts all files located on servers (That are mapped to the infected computer) i assume you don't have mapped drives since you are in a home environment. Solutions 1) File Version (It must be turned on manually in windows 7) -> It's probably off in your case 2) You must try system restore That's all i can say. By the way some people said that when paying, they really got the decryption key, so if data is important to you, you have no other choice. Last question: how did you get it, because when asking the employees i didn't get a "Real" answer ?
Tutenkhamun Well i asked him the same question and he doesnt know.. Then again he is not a very involved computer person.. He probably clicked something he shouldnt have clicked. I tried the restor option via shadow explorer as it was suggested in one of the manual solutions but didnt work because he has never created any system restore points. I will try the file recovery solution and see if this works. I have also read that some people paid and got decription keys but he doesnt want to and besides those people writing and saying they they got decryption keys may be fake you know. This ransomware is one nasty SOB.. I wouldnt wish it even to my enemies.. I mean all your files disapear just like that!