PC Threats

Remove Chaos ransomware

Chaos ransomware is a severe malicious program infection, more precisely categorized as ransomware. Data encoding malicious program is not something every person has heard of, and if it is your first time encountering it, you'll learn the hard way how how much damage it could do. You will not be able to access your files if they have been encoded by ransomware, which usually uses powerful encryption algorithms. Ransomware is believed to be one of the most harmful infections you can have since decrypting data is not always likely. There is the option of paying pay crooks for a decryptor, but we do not recommend that. There are plenty of cases where paying the ransom doesn't lead to file decryption. There's nothing preventing cyber criminals from just taking your money, without giving you a way to decrypt files. In addition, the money you give would go towards financing more future data encrypting malicious program and malware. Do you really want to support the kind of criminal activity. People are also becoming increasingly attracted to the business because the amount of people who pay the ransom make file encoding malicious software a highly profitable business. You may find yourself in this kind of situation again sometime in the future, so investing the demanded money into backup would be wiser because you wouldn't need to worry about losing your data. You could then simply terminate Chaos ransomware virus and restore data from where you are keeping them. You may also not know how ransomware are distributed, and we will explain the most frequent methods in the below paragraphs. Read more...

How to remove SLAM ransomware

SLAM ransomware will encode your files, because it is ransomware. Threat can result in severe consequences, as the data you may no longer access could be permanently damaged. In addition, infecting a system is very easy, which is one of the reasons why ransomware is thought to be very damaging. Opening spam email attachments, pressing on malicious ads and bogus downloads are the most common reasons why file encrypting malware may infect. Once the encoding process is completed, a ransom note will pop up, asking you to pay for data decoding. The amount of money asked depends on the data encrypting malicious software, the demands may be to pay $50 or the price could go up to a couple of thousands of dollars. Whether you're asked for a lot of money, or a small amount, complying with the demands isn't suggested. Relying on cyber criminals to recover your files would be naive, since there's nothing preventing them from simply taking your money. There are plenty of accounts of users getting nothing after giving into with the requests. Investing the demanded money into credible backup would be wiser. While you'll be presented with a lot of different options, it shouldn't be hard to pick the best option for you. And if by chance you had backed up your files before the contamination took place, simply delete SLAM ransomware before you recover files. It is critical that you prepare for these kinds of situations because another similar contamination is probably going to happen again at some point. If you want to stay safe, you have to familiarize yourself with potential threats and how to protect yourself. Read more...