Mobef-Salam ransomware is classified as ransomware, a file-encoding kind of malicious software. These kinds of infections should be taken seriously, as they could lead to file loss. What is more, infection happens very easily, which is one of the reasons why file encoding malicious program is thought to be highly harmful. If you remember opening a strange email attachment, clicking on some suspicious advertisement or downloading an 'update' advertised on some shady page, that's how it infected your system. After it encrypts your files, it will ask that you pay a specific amount of money for a for a method to decrypt data. How much money is requested depends on the file encoding malicious software, some request thousands of dollars, some for less than $100. Whatever amount is requested of you, consider the situation cautiously before you do. Trusting criminals to recover your files would be naive, since there is nothing stopping them from just taking your money. You can certainly encounter accounts of users not getting data back after payment, and that's not really shocking. We suggest buy backup, instead. From USBs to cloud storage, there are plenty of options, all you need to do is select. And if by accident you had backed up your data before the infection took place, simply remove Mobef-Salam ransomware and then proceed to data recovery. This is not likely to be the last time you will get infected with some kind of malicious program, so you need to be ready. In order to safeguard a machine, one must always be on the lookout for potential malware, becoming familiar with their spread methods.
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