
Here at Timfy Designs we have noticed a huge increase recently in one particularly nasty type of virus infection.
You receive an email from a friend, a trusted looking company or sometimes even from your own email address. Attached to the email is an innocuous looking file.
If you open this file a program will run in the background, locking out all of your files and you will get a message that to recover your data you have to send a specified amount of money, usually in untraceable bitcoins, to a specified server.
Of course, if you do pay the ransom, nine times out of ten your files will still remain locked. The lock system is such that it cannot easily be cracked. The only outcome will be completely wiping your computer and losing everything.
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