.SIGARETA files file-encoding malicious program, more commonly known as ransomware, will encrypt your data. Threat could have severe consequences, as encoded files could be permanently damaged. Because of this, and the fact that getting infected is rather easy, ransomware is thought to be a very harmful infection. If your system is infected, a spam email attachment, an infected advertisement or a bogus download is responsible. Once the encoding has been completed, a ransom note will be dropped, in which you will be asked to pay in exchange for data decoding. You may be demanded to pay $50, or $1000, depending on which ransomware you have. Think carefully before giving into the requests, even if it asks for a small sum. There is nothing preventing crooks from just taking your money, providing nothing in exchange. If you take the time to look into it, you'll definitely find accounts of people not recovering files, even after paying. Investing the demanded money into some backup option would be wiser. You'll be presented with a lot of different options, but it shouldn't be difficult to pick the best option for you. You can recover files from backup if you had it available prior to infection, after you remove .SIGARETA files. These threats aren't going away in the foreseeable future, so you need to prepare yourself. To keep a machine safe, one should always be on the lookout for possible threats, becoming familiar with how to avoid them.
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