How your PC get effected with Ransomeware?
McAfee’s latest Threats Report shows a 1.5 million increase in malware since last quarter. 2012 is in fact, far and away the busiest year ever for malware with an estimated total of 100 million malware samples worldwide by 2012.
With the malware growth rate up nearly 100,000 per day, McAfee has identified these key variations of malware affecting everyone, which include, mobile malware, Twitter hackers web threats and specifically ransomware.
Data can sometimes be held hostage with the help of “ransomware,” also known as “ransom software.” This software infiltrates your computer when you download an infected attachment or clicking a link within the body of an email. You can also get ransomware simply by visiting the wrong website, in what is called a “drive-by.” Or msmpeng.exe.
Once your computer or mobile device is infected with ransomware, it locks down your files to prevent you from accessing them and gives a hacker full control of your machine. Sometimes the ransomware poses as a “Browser Security” or “Anti-Adware” security product whose license has expired. Computers running Windows that are infected by ransomware are confronted by a full-screen message that resembles a Windows “error alert”.
With the malware growth rate up nearly 100,000 per day, McAfee has identified these key variations of malware affecting everyone, which include, mobile malware, Twitter hackers web threats and specifically ransomware.
Data can sometimes be held hostage with the help of “ransomware,” also known as “ransom software.” This software infiltrates your computer when you download an infected attachment or clicking a link within the body of an email. You can also get ransomware simply by visiting the wrong website, in what is called a “drive-by.” Or msmpeng.exe.
Once your computer or mobile device is infected with ransomware, it locks down your files to prevent you from accessing them and gives a hacker full control of your machine. Sometimes the ransomware poses as a “Browser Security” or “Anti-Adware” security product whose license has expired. Computers running Windows that are infected by ransomware are confronted by a full-screen message that resembles a Windows “error alert”.