Tuesday, April 4, 2017

How to Fix Trojan.Ransomlock.G!g1?

Brief Description on Trojan.Ransomlock.G!g1
Trojan.Ransomlock.G!g1 is a type of nasty screen-locker Trojan horse virus which typically block the access to victim's system and then demand that the victimized system user should pay the ransom fee in order to regain access to the affected machine. The threat carry out this scam with the help of bogus message which pretends to be an important notification from a law enforcement agency and try to make this scam more authentic and to scare inexperienced computer users into paying the hefty sum of demanded ransom fee. This bogus message claims that the victim's machine was used for illegal activities and that the asked ransom money is actually a fine. Although, Trojan.Ransomlock.G!g1 virus detect the system's location from its IP address to display a ransom notification which is specific for that geographical location.

Moreover, the ransom money demanded by the operators of this Trojan is 100 Euro in for the victim's of European region and 200 USD for the infected system users in US. Ransomware related Trojan virus have been active since 2009. However, they first targeted the machine users in Russian Federation and in other Russian speaking countries. The malware first spread to the rest of Western Europe and has also started targeting the systems in United States. There are number of criminal organization working simultaneously to produce dangerous ransomware type Trojan like Trojan.Ransomlock.G!g1. The RMV security experts have observed that the hacker's organization are also responsible for many rogue computer security applications and other banking Trojans.

Malicious Behaviors of Trojan.Ransomlock.G!g1
There is a strong reason why ransomware Trojans have increased in number so dramatically, because they can be very lucrative. Cyber security analysts estimate that nearly 3% of all the victims pay demanded ransom money, which converts into hundreds of thousands of dollars by considering the volume of infected machine that you are dealing with. As a matter of fact, Trojan.Ransomlock.G!g1 malware itself was used to infect more than half a million PCs in a little more than two weeks, which results in massive payout of ransom fee in a very short period of time. Therefore, malware researchers strongly advise against paying the ransom money due to the fact that, in most of the cases, the threat will do nothing to eliminate the virus completely from your compromised machine. Hence, you should use a credible anti-malware tool to delete Trojan.Ransomlock.G!g1 safely from the system.

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