Tips to help users solve various general computer problems
DigiSmirkz Toolbar is a browser application that supposedly improves the browser’s work by adding quick access to most popular Internet services like Facebook, Instagram, Amazon ,and so on. At first glance, DigiSmirkz Toolbar may seem very useful but many computer experts classify it as an potentially unwanted program. After stealth installation, the program starts to display a lot of ads which are appeared over the page content.
Digisom is dreadful ransomware-type threat using asymmetric cryptography to infect your files. Once infiltrated, starts the scanning process to find the target files. Into the kill zone enters personal and sensitive files, like images, music, videos, text files and so on.
7zipper is ransomware virus that locks personal files by encrypting them. The way of encryption is unusual for this kind of malware, it simply archives the files to ZIP format and sets password on them. The name of all infected file is appended with the .7zipper. For instance, photo.png changes to photo.png.7zipper. After data compression, virus creates text file, which places in each folder with corrupted files.
Sage 2.0 is a new version of Sage ransomware. Like a previous one, Sage 2.0 has dirty function- to encrypt files on affected computer. Asymmetric AES algorithm is used in order to do this which makes the file decryption almost impossible. Once the encryption process is completed, virus will place ransom note on the desktop and all folders with encrypted files. Victims are blackmailed stating they need to send 2000 USD to the Bitcoin wallet account to decrypt files.
LambdaLocker is a new ransomware virus that encrypts files using AES-256 and SHA-256 algorithm. This ransomware is hardly any different from other similar malware and uses same scheme. After penetration, the Labdablocker adds the name of each encrypted file with .lambda_l0cked extension. Next, cybercriminals alert victims via ransom note which is set as desktop wallpaper.